Kierkegaard After MacIntyre Essays on Freedom, Narrative, and Virtue

by Davenport, John J.; Rudd, Anthony; MacIntyre, Alasdair; Quinn, Philip L.

• ISBN13: 9780812694390
• ISBN10: 0812694392
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-16
• Publisher: Open Court

Summary

The work of Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) has recently been the subject of new interpretations. Alasdair Maclntyre argues that the prolific Dane's notion of ethics implies an arbitrary leap of faith. In this lively forum, scholars respond to and further explore his ideas.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
General Sigla	xi
List of Contributors	xiv
Introduction	xvii
Selection from MacIntyre's After Virtue	xxxv
PART I: AFTER VIRTUE AND EITHER/OR	1	(128)
Kierkegaard and the Relativist Challenge to Practical Philosophy (with a New Postscript)	2	(37)
Peter J. Mehl
To Tell a Good Tale: Kierkegaardian Reflections on Moral Narrative and Moral Truth	39	(20)
Jeffrey S. Turner
Kierkegaard on Rationality	59	(16)
Marilyn Gaye Piety
The Meaning of Kierkegaard's Choice between the Aesthetic and the Ethical: A Response to MacIntyre	75	(38)
John J. Davenport
The Place of Reason in Kierkegaard's Ethics	113	(16)
Gordon D. Marino
PART II: MACINTYRE AND KIERKEGAARD TODAY	129	(196)
Reason in Ethics: MacIntyre and Kierkegaard	131	(20)
Anthony Rudd
Neither Aristotle nor Nietzsche	151	(22)
Richard Johnson
After Paganism: Kierkegaard, Socrates, and the Christian Tradition	173	(18)
Karen L. Carr
Kierkegaard and MacIntyre: Possibilities for Dialogue	191	(20)
Bruce H. Kirmmse
Thinking with Kierkegaard and MacIntyre about the Aesthetic, Virtue, and Narrative	211	(22)
Norman Lillegard
The Perils of Polarity: Kierkegaard and MacIntyre in Search of Moral Truth	233	(32)
Edward F. Mooney
Towards an Existential Virtue Ethics: Kierkegaard and MacIntyre	265	(60)
John J. Davenport
PART III: RESPONSES	325	(32)
Unity and Disunity, Harmony and Discord: A Response to Lillegard and Davenport	327	(12)
Philip L. Quinn
Once More on Kierkegaard	339	(18)
Alasdair MacIntyre
Index	357