Rights, Virtue, and Others in MacIntyre
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Christianity and Politics
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Human Rights
ius gentium
Natural Law
Natural Rights
Nominalist-Voluntarist
Political theology
Virtue Theory
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- ISBN 9781978716209
- Weight: 522g
- Dimensions: 161 x 236mm
- Publication Date: 22 Aug 2024
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Rights, Virtue, and Others in MacIntyre: Community After the Fall demonstrates that human rights are not anathema to MacIntyre’s vision of practices, virtue, and tradition, but rather are necessary to stop that vision being appropriated in problematic ways and to help it take those outside one’s own community seriously. This work brings MacIntyre into extended conversation with historians such as Brian Tierney and Charles Reid as well as with postcolonial thinkers and theologians such as Edward Said and Willie James Jenning, demonstrating that each has something to say to MacIntyre about the limits of virtue’s vision. MacIntyre’s readings of historical theologians, including Ockham and Vitoria, are brought into question, with each being shown to demonstrate how rights can act to complete, rather than undermine MacIntyre’s program. What emerges is a MacIntyrean understanding of rights in which they act as historically discerned constraints against the excesses of institutional power.
Joel Pierce is the administrator of Christ’s College at the University of Aberdeen and also serves as an associate tutor at the Scottish Episcopal Institute.
