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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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Rosalind Hursthouse on Moral Blindspots

December 31, 2013

‘Some blind spots we take as adequate grounds for denying any virtue at all, notwithstanding the fact that some people …

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Aspects of Ethics and Motivation according to Aristotle

December 31, 2013

The Virtuous Man ‘At the end of Book 1 of the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle introduces a distinction between the ‘continent’ …

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Rosalind Hursthouse on Moral Wisdom

December 29, 2013

‘The effort of trying to imagine someone reaching correct moral decisions about what to do by cranking through a decision …

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Rosalind Hursthouse on ‘Virtue’

December 28, 2013

“The second is the concept of a virtue (or vice) itself. Suppose someone were described as having the virtue of …

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Faheem A. Hussain

Faheem A. Hussain

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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