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July 1995Der Verlust der Tugend
Zur moralischen Krise der Gegenwart
by Alasdair C. MacIntyre, Wolfgang Riehl
MacIntyre deutet die Problemlagen und Aporien gegenwärtiger moralphilosophischer Diskussionen als Ausdruck einer katastrophalen moralischen Krise der Gegenwart. Sein Ausgangspunkt ist die Unfähigkeit unserer Zeit, zentrale moralische Fragen im allgemeinen Konsens zu lösen. Die echte Alternative zu Nietzsches Destruktion der Moral sieht er in einer neuen Anknüpfung an die bedeutendste Form einer vormodernen Ethik, die Tugendlehre des Aristoteles. Eine Geschichte der »Tugend« in der Antike und im Mittelalter unterbaut diesen Anspruch. Im ständigen Dialog mit philosophischen und soziologischen Autoren entwirft er die Perspektive einer neuen in lokale Gemeinschaften eingelassenen Tugendethik für unser Zeitalter.
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1968Das Unbewusste
Eine Begriffsanalyse. Mit einem Abriss 'Freuds Theorie'
by Alasdair MacIntyre, Richard S Peters, Gudrun Sauter
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April 2011Pragmatismus als Kulturpolitik
Beiträge zum Werk Richard Rortys
by Alexander Gröschner, Mike Sandbothe, Michael Adrian
Richard Rorty (1931–2007) gehört zu den prägenden Denkern des 20. Jahrhunderts, hat einflußreiche Beiträge zur Auflösung der Grundprobleme der modernen Philosophie geleistet und dem Begriff des Pragmatismus eine kulturpolitische Bedeutung gegeben. Der Band versammelt namhafte Wegbegleiter Rortys sowie international renommierte Philosophen und Kulturwissenschaftler, die Rortys intellektuelle Entwicklung nachzeichnen und zeigen, wie lebensnah Philosophie sein kann, wenn sie sich kulturpolitisch versteht. Dabei geht es auch um aktuelle Themen wie das Verhältnis zur Natur, den respektvollen Umgang mit Kindern und Fragen der Staatsangehörigkeit, der Interkulturalität und der Körperlichkeit. Mit Beiträgen u. a. von Barry Allen, Robert Brandom, Jürgen Habermas, Claus Leggewie, Alasdair MacIntyre, Saskia Sassen und Richard Shusterman.
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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2006Blair’s community
Communitarian thought and New Labour
by Sarah Hale, Chantal Hamill
Blair's community is an exciting and timely book which challenges the accepted wisdom about the role of communitarian thought in the development of New Labour under Tony Blair. From the mid-1990s there has been a widespread view that Labour policies have reflected, or even been influenced by, the work of communitarian writers like Amitai Etzioni and John Macmurray, and philosophers such as Alasdair MacIntyre and Michael Sandel. The book begins by establishing that such a view was widely, and frequently unquestioningly, held, in both popular and academic forums. It then identifies reasons for the persistence of this impression, the evidence on which it was based, and the understandings of communitarianism used by commentators. The book argues that existing accounts of 'New Labour's communitarianism' fail to present an accurate picture because they are - in some cases explicitly - working with a generic or composite conception of communitarianism which bears little relation to the work of the communitarian writers whose names have been associated with the party. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2020The supernatural in early modern Scotland
by Julian Goodare, Martha McGill, Janet Hadley Williams, Lizanne Henderson, Liv Helene Willumsen, Michelle D. Brock, Alasdair Raff, Jane Ridder-Patrick, Michael B. Riordan, Domhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart, Felicity Loughlin, Hamish Mathison
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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2008Political responsibility and the European Union
by Myrto Tsakatika
This book addresses the question of political legitimacy in the European Union from the much neglected angle of political responsibility. It develops an original communitarian approach to legitimacy based on Alasdair MacIntyre's ethics of virtues and practices, that can be contrasted with prevalent liberal-egalitarian and neo-republican approaches. Tsakatika argues that a 'responsibility deficit', quite distinct from the often discussed 'democratic deficit', can be diagnosed in the European Union. This is documented in chapters that provide in-depth analysis of accountability, transparency and the difficulties associated with identifying responsibility in European governance. Closing this gap requires going beyond institutional engineering. It calls for gradual convergence towards certain core social and political practices and for the flourishing of the virtues of political responsibility in Europe's nascent political community. Throughout the book, normative political theory is brought to bear on concrete dilemmas of institutional choice faced by the EU during the recent constitutional debates. 'Political responsibility and the European Union' will be of interest to specialists and postgraduate students of political theory, constitutional law and European Union Studies. ;
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June 2002Philosophie der Gerechtigkeit
Texte von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart
by Christoph Horn, Nico Scarano, Platon, Aristoteles, Epikur, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Augustinus, Anselm Canterbury, Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquin, Dante Alighieri, Thomas Hobbes, Baruch de Spinoza, Samuel Pufendorf, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, David Hume, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, John Stuart Mill, Henry Sidgwick, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gustav Radbruch, Chaïm Perelman, Hans Kelsen, H. L. A. Hart, John Rawls, Robert Nozick, Alasdair C. MacIntyre, Jacques Derrida, Iris Marion Young, Jürgen Habermas, Otfried Höffe, Amartya Sen
Was ist im eigentlichen Sinn gerecht oder ungerecht? Sind es verteilende Personen oder Institutionen, abstrakte Verteilungstheorien, -prozeduren, -resultate oder -zustände? In der Theoriegeschichte der Gerechtigkeit wurden dazu äußerst unterschiedliche Auffassungen vertreten. Erst recht unterschiedlich sind die jeweiligen Theorien dessen, was Gerechtigkeit selbst sein könnte. Nicht alle wichtigen Aspekte werden in der zeitgenössischen Debatte angemessen berücksichtigt. Diese (verlorene) Aspektvielfalt verdeutlicht der Band, der die maßgeblichen und theoriegeschichtlich bedeutenden Texte zur Theorie der Gerechtigkeit von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart zusammenstellt und präsentiert.
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Shadows & Light, The Life of James McBey
by Alasdair Soussi
Creative genius, war artist, adventurer, lover. These are just some of the words that can be used to describe Aberdeenshire-born painter and printmaker James McBey (1883– 1959). This illegitimate son of a blacksmiths’ daughter was the acknowledged heir to Whistler and Rembrandt. But after his death in 1959, his renown as one of Britain’s most accomplished artists faded. At the heart of this biography is his time as a war artist in the Middle East during the Great War, his love affairs, marriage to a beautiful American and his enduring passion for Morocco. This biography reinstates a great 20th century artist whose respectful focus brought the Arab world into the British consciousness.
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Examination of patientsSeptember 2010Essential Examination
Step-by-step system-based guide to clinical examination with practical tips and key facts for OSCEs
by Alasdair K.B. Ruthven
From reviews: "...[Essential Examination] can be considered as a very helpful aide-memoire as practitioners build up their confidence and clinical experience. Although developed with medics in mind, it could be very useful for advanced nurse practitioners and physician assistants; in fact, any health care professional would find it useful as a revision aid particularly when learning with peers. The book is clearly and succinctly written. It is not designed to teach students how to carry out examinations, but in a systematic way it links clinical examination (what you do) to pathophysiology and diagnosis (what you may find and what it means). It is produced in a landscape format in a ring binder which makes it easy to access when on a busy attachment or shift. It very helpfully lists the abbreviations at the beginning..." International Journal of Clinical Skills, www. ijocs. org Amazon review: This is a fantastic book and a must for all medical students. The unique strength of this book is the layout - all important examinations each on a single page. The small pointers are also invaluable and the questions on the reverse side of each examination are perfect for pre-finals revision. This book played a big role in helping me pass my medical school finals. A MUST HAVE!! Sam, final-year medical student Uniquely, Essential Examination lays out the full sequence for examination of one body system on one double-page spread a format allowing rapid access to information and ideal for use in clinical environments for quick revision. And the spiral binding allows you to keep it open at the body system you need. Each system-based examination offers a clear, step-by-step guide to examining that particular patient, including useful things to say to the patient (or an examiner), detailed descriptions of special tests, etc. Alongside this guide is the other key information you will need: potential findings, differential diagnoses of clinical signs and practical tips. In addition, the following double-page spread provides further facts relating to that particular examination, selected because of the regularity with which they are asked about in bedside teaching and OSCEs. The book also provides essential background information for anyone preparing for the USMLE Step 2 CS. In many sections there are also tips on how to present your findings succinctly to help you keep on track. If you are examining patients on the wards, or preparing for exams, then you need Essential Examination!
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On Consolation
Finding Solace in Hard Times
by Michael Ignatieff
To console someone to be a source of meaning and understanding amidst the pain and loss of life is one of the hardest things a person can do. More and more it's being sought after, not in religious institutions, but through individuals and personal networks. Less and less it's being associated with political traditions, particularly those on the left that tell us to fight, to resist the status quo rather than to accept. Michael Ignatieff explores how those of us who live in a secular world, without the comforting thought of an afterlife free from suffering, have found a modern form of consolation through the religious structures of the past. Using the history of the psalms from the Jewish and Christian traditions, Ignatieff revives these masterpieces to understand the power of their words, and their limits. On Consolation is tragically relevant to our current age, but that is what makes it all the more necessary. Through this book, we learn what it means to find consolation to balance struggle with submission, acceptance of defeat with the lasting light of hope.
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Local historyThe Great Glen
From Columba to Telford
by Catriona Fforde
This book provides a picture of the Great Glen, stretching from Fort William to Inverness, from AD550 to 1850. It begins with a description of the glen as it is today and an account of its geological development. This is followed by eleven chapters describing major characters or events in the glen. These are: St. Columba, King Brude, Macbeth, Alasdair Carrach (an early chief of the Keppoch MacDonalds), the Battle of the Shirts, the 1st Marquis of Montrose, Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel, Viscount (Bonnie) Dundee, the building of the Military Roads, the 1745 Jacobite Rising and its aftermath and the building of the Caledonian Canal.There is a short final chapter which makes some reference to the poets and musicians of the glen. Brief passages throughout on political and social developments serve to link the chapters together. The book is academic to some degree but perfectly comprehensible to the general reader with any interest in history. It will be particularly welcome to the hundreds of people who walk the Great Glen Way each year.
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March 2012MODERN SOCIAL THINKERS
by Pradip Basu
This book works on modern social thinkers who have articulated their deeper thought about society as a whole or any aspect thereof. They have worked within the modern social perspective of new historical as well as intellectual developments, which began to surface with the European Renaissance of the 14-16th centuries. Some of the thinkers chose to legitimize modernity. Others live within modernity but critique modernity’s specific aspects from their own points of view-they are still modern social thinkers in the sense that their thoughts and premises amerged within the larger contours of the modern world. Twenty researchers from India and abroad have contributed their unpublished, original and referenced articles on the following thinkers: Karl Marx, Karl Popper, Jacques Derrida, Frantz Fanon, Jurgen Habernas, Luce Irigaray, Raymond Williams, Giorgio Agamben, Emmanuel Levinas, Georges Bataille, Zygmunt Bauman, Alasdair Maclntyre, Bertolt Brecht, Sudipta Kaviraj, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, C. Wright Mills, Bade Onimode, Fatima Mernissi, Jayaprakash Narayan, Ernesto De Martion. The book will cater to the needs of the advanced post-graduate, M.Phil. and Ph.D. students as well as teachers. Editor Pradip Basu: Ph.D. on Naxalism:Faculty, Scottish Church College; Gust faculty, Post Graduate departments of Political science and Philosophy, Calcutta University; author/edited books: Towards Naxalbari, Discourses on Naxalite Movement, postmodernism Marxism Postcolonialism, Colonial Modernity, Avenel Companion to Modern Social Theorists, Red on Silver: Naxalites in Cinema etc.
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EducationThe Stranger Within
On the Idea of an Educated Public
by Barr, J.
Increasing numbers of people now receive a higher education. Yet we still do not have that ‘educated public’ about which the philosopher, Alasdair MacIntyre, wrote two decades ago. The stranger within: On the idea of an educated public reflects on this situation, regarding the future shape of the university as a kind of public sphere in exile and a site of social and cultural interpenetration. At its centre is a revaluation of the Scottish tradition of ‘democratic intellectualism’, highlighted by George Davie in his book The democratic intellect (1961). Davie charts the gradual extinction in the Scottish universities of a type of higher education which encouraged breadth of study, public engagement and, through the compulsory study of philosophy, a concern with theory and ideas. The stranger within: On the idea of an educated public seeks to reframe this Scottish tradition and its associated ideal of an educated public in light of recent debates concerning cultural difference, the nation, imperialism and globalisation. It investigates how the radical social purpose inherent in the democratic intellect tradition might be re-vitalised to become a feature of higher education and of a more broadly based popular education worldwide. The book is underpinned by philosophical, social and cultural studies and it draws specifically on radical adult education practices related to social movements and to liberating knowledge ‘from below’. It should be a valuable resource for academics from different disciples who wish to communicate across disciplines about key issues of the day; to managers in higher education who wish to counteract the fragmentation of disciplines; and to adult, community and lifelong education workers, and members of the wider public who seek strategies to counter current educational and ‘lifelong learning’ orthodoxies.
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January 2022
Nature as Guide
Wittgenstein and the Renewal of Moral Theology
by David Goodill, OP
Wittgenstein influenced a generation of philosophers and theologians, with works such as Fergus Kerr’s Theology After Wittgenstein showing the relevance of Wittgenstein’s philosophy for contemporary questions in theology. Nature as Guide follows many of the insights of this earlier generation of Wittgenstein influenced scholars, to bring Wittgenstein into conversation with contemporary Catholic moral theology. The first four chapters of the book provides a reading of key themes in Wittgenstein’s philosophy, and draw among others on G.E.M. Anscombe to situate Wittgenstein in relation to the Platonic tradition. Understanding the relationship between grammar, metaphysics and nature is central to this tradition and these themes are examined through an account of Wittgenstein’s philosophical development. These four chapters also provides a critical perspective on Wittgenstein’s thought, engaging with the criticisms of Wittgenstein offered by philosophers such as Rhees Rush and William Charlton. Chapter five lays the groundwork for a dialogue between Wittgenstein and moral theology. Firstly, by examining how open Wittgenstein’s philosophy is to dialogue with theology, and secondly through proposing the use of Servais Pinckaers’ definition of moral theology to structure the conversation developed in subsequent chapters. Pinckaers’ definition is based upon St Thomas Aquinas’ presentation of the principles of human acts in the Prima Secundae of the Summa Theologiae and the final three chapters focus on the question of human acts and their basis in human nature. The reading of Wittgenstein developed in the first part of the book is brought into dialogue with the tradition of Catholic moral theology represented by Pinckaers and other students of St Thomas, such as Anscombe, Josef Pieper, Herbert McCabe, Jean Porter and Alasdair MacIntyre. The book finishes with McCabe’s account of the transformation of human nature through God’s Word, showing how Wittgenstein’s understanding of human practices can shed light on the life of grace.
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March 2011Canes and Scales
Out of Print
by S.A. Garcia, Anne Cain
Prince Linden of Ardaul struggles daily to pull his country into the modern age by encouraging education and tolerance. But his brother Edward, the malicious King of Ardaul, delights in thwarting his efforts, and long years of fighting wars and solving conflicts have taken a toll on Linden’s body and mind.Weary to his very soul, Linden vacations at his cousin’s manor in an attempt to rest and recuperate. There he meets an alluring young half-Elven bedslave named Alasdaire, and his numb heart responds to the exotic Halfling’s loving personality. But all too soon their tempestuous romance is shattered by betrayal and death. Can their newborn love overcome separation and pain? ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesÉtica aplicada
Desde la medicina hasta el humor
by Mauricio Correa Casanova y Adela Cortina
Resulta indesmentible que hoy la realidad social exige a la filosofía moral comprometerse con la vida cotidiana. La ética aplicada configura una forma nueva de saber, de reflexionar sobre los problemas morales y de proponer recomendaciones para la acción. Empresas, servicios públicos, colegios profesionales o entidades sin fines de lucro, entre muchos otros, han incorporado los nuevos modos éticos de saber y hacer, y universidades de todo el mundo abordan este tema a través de cátedras, programas y centros de investigación. Este libro reúne una serie de trabajos sobre distintos ámbitos de la ética aplicada, como la ecología, la biomedicina, la empresa o la economía, que el lector común seguramente ya reconoce. Otros, en cambio, se presentan aquí con toda su novedad para situarnos ante desafíos inéditos en campos como la neuroética, el deporte, la ciudad y el humor. El principal objetivo es ofrecer a jóvenes y adultos, alumnos o profesores, funcionarios públicos o del mundo privado, perspectivas éticas en los más diversos ámbitos de la sociedad que contribuyan a encarnar la moralidad en la vida diaria, que es sin duda el real sentido de la ética aplicada. "La tarea de la razón práctica no consiste solo en enunciar lo que se debe hacer, sino también en tomar carne en las instituciones, transformándolas desde dentro. De ahí que la ética aplicada sea un elemento ineludible de cualquier diseño institucional que desee funcionar con bien, incluso lo es de cualquier proyecto de investigación que quiera recibir el visto bueno". Pag 16.
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Introduction to Christian Ethics
In the Horizon of the New Testament
by Alberto de Mingo Kaminouchi
More than affirming a set of doctrines, being a Christian means to get involved in the task of responding to the God of Jesus of Nazareth without reservations. By imitating his Teacher and under the guidance of the Spirit, Jesus’ followers can contribute to the rising of a new creation already here on earth. That is the only way for Christian ethics to find its meaning and fulfil its goal. This innovative handbook runs through the New Testament with an eye to three key concepts in Aristotle’s ethics: happiness, virtue, and love, in order to create a basic grammar which allows today’s reader to enter into Christian ethics.
