Review article

Alasdair Macintyre on rationality

Oliver Jurišić orcid.org/0000-0002-2155-2248 ; University of Sarajevo - Catholic Theological Faculty in Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Abstract

In this article we introduce some ideas on rationality of the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre. In the introduction, elements that have influenced MacIntyre’s concept of rationality are briefly introduced: the question of moral philosophy. In the two subsequent sections, two concepts of rationality are reviewed: encyclopedic rationality, and genealogical rationality. The subsequent sections explore MacIntyre’s
ideas on rationality with the following elements: practice, narration, epistemological crisis, and telos. In the fifth section, the idea of substantial rationality is considered, and in the final section two critical observations are proposed regarding MacIntyre’s idea of rationality: these are relativism and the rationality of evil practices, introducing MacIntyre’s possible answer to these problems.

Keywords

Alasdair MacIntyre; rationality; encyclopedia; genealogy; practice; epistemological crisis; narration; tradition; telos.

Hrčak ID:

260515

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/260515

Publication date:

1.12.2017.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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