The Parochial and the Universal: MacIntyre's Idea of the University
The basic purpose of this essay is to trace a parallel between, on the one hand, MacIntyre’s championing, in Chapter 10 of Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry, of a more “parochialist” vision of university education and on the other hand, his appeal to a “localist” vision of political community i...
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2013
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| Summary: | The basic purpose of this essay is to trace a parallel between, on the one hand, MacIntyre’s championing, in Chapter 10 of Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry, of a more “parochialist” vision of university education and on the other hand, his appeal to a “localist” vision of political community in Dependent Rational Animals and other related texts where he articulates his political philosophy. On the face of it, these two kinds of particularism – with respect to the university and with respect to political community – seem in tension with MacIntyre’s commitment, as a philosopher, to a universalistic quest for truth, including a proper understanding of the good for human beings both in moral life and in political life. Our suggestion is that MacIntyre is philosophically committed to these robust universals, but he thinks they are obtainable only via a thicker immersion in the particular. That is, his view is that the ultimate destination is indeed a universalist one (truth, the human good), but that destination cannot be reached unless one takes a “detour,” so to speak, into parochialism (namely, a more parochialist approach to organizing the university, and a greater emphasis on localism in politics). |
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