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Are Practices Self-Governing?
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Empresa y Humanismo . 2024, Vol. 28 Issue 1, p99-117. 19p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- In this paper I consider the question of self-governing in relation to MacIntyrean practices. It is not uncommon to discover MacIntyrean practices being described as self-governing in at least some sense. However, while there are seemingly valid reasons for why this might be thought the case, in my paper I argue that there is something very different visible in MacIntyre’s writings here. Indeed, what I want to emphasise regarding MacIntyre’s position in relation to the governing of practices is that rather than self-governing, at most MacIntyrean practices are self-directing or self-guiding. Therefore, although for MacIntyre governing of practices is fundamentally important, what I draw attention to is how, on the whole, this governing happens from outside, and that direction and guidance if and when it does happen, happens in a very specific, internal way aside from governing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *DEMOCRACY
*THOUGHT & thinking
*NATURAL law
*VIRTUES
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 11397608
- Volume :
- 28
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Empresa y Humanismo
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 174983131
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.15581/015.XXVII.1.99-117