Original scientific paper

Pluralist Response to MacIntyre’s Critique of Liberalism

Enes Kulenović ; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

This paper questions Alasdair MacIntyre’s critique of contemporary
liberal theories and institutions. First part of the paper gives an
account of MacIntrye’s critique of the Enlightenment Project and its
connection to the liberal project. It also introduced the distinction
between monist and pluralist understanding of rationality as a means
of clarifying the difference between the Enlightenment liberals and
contemporary liberal pluralists. Second part deals With MacIntyre’s
argument about the modern notion of the self and tries to draw the
difference between emotivist and liberal understanding of the self. In
the third part author acknowledges that MacIntyre is right in his critique
of the Enlightenment liberals’ claims about the universal principles
of justice. However, as liberal pluralism does not rest on the notion
of the universal principles of justice, MacIntyre’s critique of liberalism
fails to recognize different ways of justifying liberal state.

Keywords

MacIntyre; liberalism; After Virtue; pluralism

Hrčak ID:

26408

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/26408

Publication date:

3.6.2008.

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