Kierkegaard After MacIntyre Essays on Freedom, Narrative, and Virture,9780812694383

Kierkegaard After MacIntyre Essays on Freedom, Narrative, and Virture

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ISBN13: 9780812694383
ISBN10: 0812694384
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-05-07
Publisher(s): Open Court
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Summary

The work of Soren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) has recently been the subject of new interpretations. Alasdair MacIntyre argues that the prolific Dane’s notion of ethics implies an arbitrary leap of faith. In this lively forum, scholars respond to MacIntyre and further explore his ideas.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
General Sigla xi
List of Contributors
xiv
Introduction xvii
Selection from MacIntyre's After Virtue xxxv
PART I: AFTER VIRTUE AND EITHER/OR 1(128)
Kierkegaard and the Relativist Challenge to Practical Philosophy (with a New Postscript)
2(37)
Peter J. Mehl
To Tell a Good Tale: Kierkegaardian Reflections on Moral Narrative and Moral Truth
39(20)
Jeffrey S. Turner
Kierkegaard on Rationality
59(16)
Marilyn Gaye Piety
The Meaning of Kierkegaard's Choice between the Aesthetic and the Ethical: A Response to MacIntyre
75(38)
John J. Davenport
The Place of Reason in Kierkegaard's Ethics
113(16)
Gordon D. Marino
PART II: MACINTYRE AND KIERKEGAARD TODAY 129(196)
Reason in Ethics: MacIntyre and Kierkegaard
131(20)
Anthony Rudd
Neither Aristotle nor Nietzsche
151(22)
Richard Johnson
After Paganism: Kierkegaard, Socrates, and the Christian Tradition
173(18)
Karen L. Carr
Kierkegaard and MacIntyre: Possibilities for Dialogue
191(20)
Bruce H. Kirmmse
Thinking with Kierkegaard and MacIntyre about the Aesthetic, Virtue, and Narrative
211(22)
Norman Lillegard
The Perils of Polarity: Kierkegaard and MacIntyre in Search of Moral Truth
233(32)
Edward F. Mooney
Towards an Existential Virtue Ethics: Kierkegaard and MacIntyre
265(60)
John J. Davenport
PART III: RESPONSES 325(32)
Unity and Disunity, Harmony and Discord: A Response to Lillegard and Davenport
327(12)
Philip L. Quinn
Once More on Kierkegaard
339(18)
Alasdair MacIntyre
Index 357

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