Original scientific paper
Beyond Exclusivism: Either Society or Community. Remarks Concerning MacIntyre-Rorty Dispute
Gvozden Flego
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The author presents MacIntyre's thematisation of modernity within the frame of moral theory. His thesis is that in modern times - the "after virtue" age , (understood from the aristotelian-thomistic perspective) - emotivism remains the only way to establish morality. Rorty thinks that the Platonic way of thinking has exhausted itself and pleads for flexible hermeneutics as a mediator among different philosophical orientations without any pretention to reconcile them, as "commensurabilism" does. In spite of these thematic simmilarities, MacIntyre's emotivism, which ends in communitarianism and the thesis of the primacy of community in human existence, in cotrary to Rorty's liberalism which emphasizes society built on individuals. Rorty makes a step further and looks for the interspace which he finds in what John Rawls calls, in his later works, "liberal community".
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110825
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Publication date:
1.2.1995.
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