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First Principles, Finals Ends, and Contemporary Philosophical Issues (Paperback)
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First Principles, Finals Ends, and Contemporary Philosophical Issues (Paperback)
Series: The Aquinas Lecture in Philosophy
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This lecture is MacIntyre's most explicit defense of his approach
to Thomistic metaphysics. This lecture follows MacIntyre's argument
in After Virtue that modern philosophy has very literally lost its
way, and the problems it faces are insoluble. The difficulties are
twofold, and stem from the Cartesian turn to the self in the XVith
century. Modern philosophy cannot reestablish contact with the
outside world when our starting point is self-knowledge, and modern
philosophy also cannot accept that any principle could be 'first'
in any absolute sense of the word, because final causality has been
rejected. MacIntyre claims that Thomism does not suffer these
defects, but he cautions against a premature victory, because
Thomism has been decisively rejected by modern philosophy and
modern science, so that there is no chance of effective dialogue
between Thomism and other traditions. The very vocabulary of
Thomism is a stumbling block. However, modern philosophy has not
been able to completely eliminate the Aristotelian roots of all
philosophy and science, and so keeps returning to themes that it
cannot adequately address. Thus MacIntyre proposes to use the tools
of modern philosophies, such as the genealogical narrative, to help
reconnect modern philosophy and Thomism. A historical approach
might make the rejection, and the reasons for it, evident, and
allow fruitful dialogue by allowing for the fruits of modern
philosophy to be discussed in a context that will allow them to
finally flourish. Essentially, the goal is to enable contemporary
philosophy to become more itself by freeing it from the tension
created by the premises that cast doubt upon the philosophical
enterprise.
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