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Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

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In Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition, Alasdair MacIntyre continues the line of investigation which he developed in Whose Justice? Which ploring the historical roots of the West’s inability to arrive at a consensus on the underlying moral principles by which it is going to rule. Current debates over abortion, preferential treatment programs, and the justice of gross inequalities of income are only the most obvious indicators of a breakdown of rational discussion among conflicting positions.

MacIntyre begins his historical...

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