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Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Alasdair MacIntyre and Richard Rorty’s Lifelong Argument

"… Contra MacIntyre, moral judgments incorporate both reason and emotion. Hume formulated that truth provocatively, saying that reason is always the servant of emotion. It's what pragmatists like James and Dewey meant by identifying the imagination as our key moral faculty; and it's why Rorty wrote that we should expect moral progress chiefly from the work of novelists, journalists, ethnographers, and other purveyors of thick descriptions rather than from philosophy..."

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/alasdair-macintyre-richard-rorty-liberalism/

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