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Publicly Available Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg May 12, 2016

Rights, Practices and Marxism: Reply to Six Critics

  • Alasdair Maclntyre
From the journal Analyse & Kritik

Abstract

The first part of the paper expands and strengthens the criticism of appeals to human or natural rights in After Virtue. It is argued that Gewirth’s responses to various objections are inadequate and that Flathman’s historical analysis is incompatible with the evidence. Baier’s charge that the treatment of Hume in After Virtue is inadequate is acknowledged to be true. A comparison of an Aristotelian account of rational cooperation with a Humean account is made the basis for a rejection both of Baier’s assimilation of the two standpoints and of the treatment of the concept of a practice by both Miller and Doppelt. Doppelt’s rival account of the moral structures of modernity is held to be undermined both by facts which he himself recognizes and by the Marxist critique of liberal individualism. Marxism’s positive moral stance, as defended by Nielsen, is too impoverished to achieve what Nielsen claims for it.

Online erschienen: 2016-5-12
Erschienen im Druck: 1985-11-1

© 1985 by Lucius & Lucius, Stuttgart

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