Chappell, Timothy
(2008).
Utopias and the art of the possible.
Analyse und Kritik, 30
pp. 179–203.
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Abstract
I begin this paper by examining what MacIntyre has to tell us about radical disagreements: how they have arisen, and how to deal with them, within a polity. I conclude by radically disagreeing with Macintyre: I shall suggest that he offers no credible alternative to liberalism's account of radical disagreements and how to deal with them. To put it dilemmatically: insofar as what MacIntyre says is credible, it is not an alternative to liberalism; insofar as he presents a genuine alternative to liberalism, this alternative is not credible. In large part the credibility problems that I see for MacIntyre's project arise from the history on which he bases it; it is with this history that I begin. Reflection on MacIntyre's profound and subtle political philosophy thus fails to dislodge liberalism from its contemporary intellectual supremacy–a supremacy which I think liberalism has well earned. If anything, such reflection enhances the hegemony of liberalism still further. And a good thing too.
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Journal Article
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| Copyright Holders: |
2008 Lucius & Lucius, Stuttgart |
| ISSN: |
0171-5860 |
| Academic Unit/Department: |
Arts > Philosophy |
| Item ID: |
24574 |
| Depositing User: |
Tim Chappell
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| Date Deposited: |
11 Nov 2010 09:46 |
| Last Modified: |
26 Oct 2012 04:35 |
| URI: |
http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/24574 |
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