Whose justice? Which rationality?

A tremendously influential work but a difficult read as compared to 'After Virtue'; probably because most of the readers including myself are not well familiar with all the moral, philosophical and cultural traditions referred in the book. I loved the last part about Hume and the Chapter about resolving the conflict between traditions. Overall, an amazing read supplying lots of important questions.

Whose Justice? Which Rationality?, the sequel to After Virtue, is a persuasive argument of there not being rationality that is not the rationality of some tradition. MacIntyre examines the problems presented by the existence of rival traditions of inquiry in the cases of four major philosophers: Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, and Hume.

When we talk about "Justice" or "reason" we assume that people know what we mean. This is not always true, of course, because we have differing concepts of justice and rationality, which MacIntyre skillfully lays out in this book. This is not so much a sequel to After Virtue as much as it is a Prequel.

MacIntyre has a very easy to read style, which is helpful, because the concepts he tackles are very complicated.

A history of Western ideas about rationality and justice. So, "WHOSE ideas about justice are we contemplating (and forcibly pushing out for others to them to deal with, or else!)?"

매킨타이어는 이 책을 통해 AFTER VIRTUE 에서 미처 대답하지 못한 질문에 답하려고 한다. 매킨타이어는 왜 저렇게 행동하지 않고 이렇게 행동하는 것이 합리적인지에 대한 이유 그리고 다른 실천적 합리성 대신 이런 실천적 합리성 (practical rationality) 의 개념을 지지하는 것이 합리적인 이유를 이 책에서 보여주려고 한다.