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MacIntyre on being the heirs of Kuhn and not Kant

July 3, 2014

‘What was at issue here is perhaps easier for us to recognise now than it was for Gifford and his …

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MacIntyre on Progress in Rationality

March 15, 2014

‘Aristotle’s achievement then is wrongly understood if it is supposed that he offered us an account of justice and of …

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MacIntyre on Practical Reason and the Structures of Normality

March 12, 2014

‘All practical reasoning arises from someone’s asking the question “What am I to do?” The asking of that question itself …

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On Disagreeing about Everything

October 22, 2013

From their standpoint a theist is someone who believes in just one more being than they do and who therefore …

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MacIntyre on the ‘Practical’ Atheism in American Universities

October 21, 2013

Any organized and institutionalized scheme of learning presupposes some view of how the various academic disciplines do or do not …

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On the ‘Incomprehensibility’ of Religious Morals

October 13, 2013

”In the journal of his third voyage Captain Cook records the first discovery by English speakers of the Polynesian word …

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The Joys of ‘Virtue’

October 12, 2013

How can I persuade you to read After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre ? With regards to its significance? Outside philosophy, …

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Faheem A. Hussain

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Faheem A. Hussain has a BA (Hons.) in Arabic and Islamic studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, a PGCE in Religious Studies from Roehampton University, and a MA in philosophy from Heythrop College, University of London.

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