Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry

MacIntyre, Alasdair

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“…Personal identity, for MacIntyre, is not simply given, as a pure self‐identical Cartesian substance; but (in opposition to philosophers as otherwise different as Parfit and Deleuze) he does not take this rejection of Cartesianism to justify rejecting the idea of personal identity itself as something illusory (see MacIntyre 1981, chap. 15; 1990, chap. 9).…”

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KIERKEGAARD ON PATIENCE AND THE TEMPORALITY OF THE SELF: The Virtues of a Being in Time

Rudd¹

2008

Journal of Religious Ethics

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This paper examines Kierkegaard's discussion of patience in some of his Upbuilding Discourses, and its connection with his understanding of the nature of selfhood as it appears both in the Discourses and in The Sickness unto Death. That understanding stresses that selfhood is not simply given, but is a task to be achieved-although a task that can only be achieved by the self that is formed in the process of undertaking it. For Kierkegaard, an account of the self that recognizes its essential temporality must give a crucial role to patience as a virtue necessary for the formation and maintenance of personal identity. However, although the self is essentially temporal for Kierkegaard, it is also essentially such as to participate in eternity, and this complexity and tension in his concept of the self gives his understanding of patience a particular character-one that presents an important challenge to some of the dominant assumptions of recent and contemporary philosophy in both the analytic and the continental traditions.

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Section: Macintyre On Patiencementioning

confidence: 99%

KIERKEGAARD ON PATIENCE AND THE TEMPORALITY OF THE SELF: The Virtues of a Being in Time

Rudd¹

2008

Journal of Religious Ethics

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“…One of the first to do this was John Searle (1970: 132-6). More broadly, philosophers such as Alasdair Macintyre (1981Macintyre ( , 1988Macintyre ( , 1990 and Charles Taylor (1989Taylor ( , 1991 have adopted a basically Aristotelian approach to morality in which the crucial issue is what kind of person you are. When the functions or purposes of an entity are built into its very concept, then it will follow from facts about the well or otherwise functioning of that entity that it is a good, bad or whatever thing of its kind.…”

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Book Review: Washing the Brain — Metaphor and Hidden Ideology by Andrew Goatly, 2007. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp. xvi + 431. ISBN 978 90 272 2713 3 (hbk)

Crisp

2008

Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics

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There is yet one more aspect that requires attention, that is, the postcolonial voice which has never been loud enough to be heard above the din of Maltese voices that have recently emerged quite strongly in the local literary works. The question of identity has been addressed in the study as part of the process by which authenticity is gained, but by focusing on such a situation unique to the Maltese context -a native writer adopting the L1 to a Maltese setting -a rare voice has come to the fore. While Caruana presents the four dimensional model of 'reality' in translating literary texts, she has created a tool for exposing the postcolonial identity of the text, allowing the projection of its voice to reach beyond the interest in literary translation and move to a wider context -cultural studies.

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“…The aristotelian view is reflected in the popular notion that ''what is natural is moral.'' 19 In talking about Aristotle's or Plato's views, however, it should be kept in mind that ''freedom'' in any modern sense was not a part of their vocabulary. ''To be free'' in ancient Greece often meant just ''not to be a slave.''…”

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Concepts of “person” and “liberty,” and their implications to our fading notions of autonomy

Takala

2007

J Med Ethics

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It is commonly held that respect for autonomy is one of the most important principles in medical ethics. However, there are a number of interpretations as to what that respect actually entails in practice and a number of constraints have been suggested even on our self-regarding choices. These limits are often justified in the name of autonomy. In this paper, it is argued that these different interpretations can be explained and understood by looking at the discussion from the viewpoints of positive and negative liberty and the various notions of a “person” that lay beneath. It will be shown how all the appeals to positive liberty presuppose a particular value system and are therefore problematic in multicultural societies.

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Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry

Cited by 70 publications

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KIERKEGAARD ON PATIENCE AND THE TEMPORALITY OF THE SELF: The Virtues of a Being in Time

KIERKEGAARD ON PATIENCE AND THE TEMPORALITY OF THE SELF: The Virtues of a Being in Time

Book Review: Washing the Brain — Metaphor and Hidden Ideology by Andrew Goatly, 2007. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp. xvi + 431. ISBN 978 90 272 2713 3 (hbk)

Concepts of “person” and “liberty,” and their implications to our fading notions of autonomy

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