Either (Nietzsche) / Or (Aristotle)? Macintyre's modernity and the enduring relevance of Kierkegaard
This essay situates Alasdair MacIntyre's typology of moral enquiry in Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry relative to his critique of Søren Kierkegaard in After Virtue to offer an alternative reading of Kierkegaard's Either/Or to the one MacIntyre proposes. The essay shows that MacIntyre...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2023
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Modern theology
Year: 2023, Volume: 39, Issue: 4, Pages: 588-606 |
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Kierkegaard, Søren 1813-1855, Enten-eller
/ MacIntyre, Alasdair C. 1929-, Three rival versions of moral enquiry
/ MacIntyre, Alasdair C. 1929-, After virtue
/ Nietzsche, Friedrich 1844-1900
/ Morals
/ Genealogy
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| RelBib Classification: | FA Theology KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history NCA Ethics VA Philosophy |
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| Summary: | This essay situates Alasdair MacIntyre's typology of moral enquiry in Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry relative to his critique of Søren Kierkegaard in After Virtue to offer an alternative reading of Kierkegaard's Either/Or to the one MacIntyre proposes. The essay shows that MacIntyre's reading of Kierkegaard's Either/Or fails to register that in important respects Kierkegaard's counterpoint of rival perspectives in Either/Or bears striking resemblance to the scenario of mutual antagonisms that MacIntyre identifies among the genres of genealogy, encyclopaedia, and tradition-informed moral enquiry. The essay then proposes a reading of Either/Or that implicitly questions not just the approach of the encyclopaedists, but also the approach of all genealogists of modernity (including the genealogy of Friedrich Nietzsche). Finally, contrary to MacIntyre's unfortunate judgement that “Kierkegaard's doctrine” is “at once the outcome and the epitaph of the Enlightenment's systematic attempt to discover a rational justification for morality,” the essay argues instead that what we can learn from Kierkegaard has been and ought to remain of enduring relevance for “tradition-informed” philosophical and theological thinking in modernity. |
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| ISSN: | 1468-0025 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Modern theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/moth.12835 |