Rights, Virtue, and Others in Macintyre - Community After the Fall

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.

List of contents

Dedication
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: A World without Rights?
Chapter 2: The Limits of Virtue's Vision
Chapter 3: Rights as a Nominalist-Voluntarist Mistake?
Chapter 4: Rights as Balanced Freedom
Chapter 5: Vitoria, Colonialism, and Natural Law
Chapter 6: Remaking the Ius Gentium
Chapter 7: How to Listen to a Right
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Joel Pierce
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.08.2024
• EAN: 9781978716209
• ISBN: 978-1-978716-20-9
• No. of pages: 252
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, RELIGION / Ethics, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Philosophy, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Religious ethics, Philosophy of religion