Metaphysics, History, And Rational Justification A MacIntyrean Response to Franklin Gamwell's Critique |
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Authors: | Kent Reames |
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Institution: | Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois |
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Abstract: | This article addresses Franklin Gamwell's critique of Alasdair MacIntyre's account of the nature of rational justification. I argue that MacIntyreans have good reasons to take seriously Gamwell's critique, and thus to reformulate MacIntyre's position to make clear that that position does not rest on a denial of all a priori claims. The author outlines such a reformulation, drawing heavily on MacIntyre's account (in his 1990 Aquinas Lecture) of the place of a priori claims within the development of rational traditions of inquiry. When thus rethought, MacIntyre's position grounds a twofold response to Gamwell's critique. |
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Keywords: | ethics historicism metaphysics rationality tradition transcendental |
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