Hello, My name is Brian and I'm new to this list. I'm a teacher of moral theology (among other things) based in Ghana, West Africa. I'm using MacIntyre's model...
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My name is Steve Denning. I am a writer and adviser to organizations on various kinds of managerial issues. am particularly interested in the issues of how...
Hola a todos. A mí también me gustaría se activara este grupo de discusión. Actualmente soy profesor de ética, y pretendo realizar mi tesis doctoral en...
Hello Steve, Sorry to take so long to get back, but its been exam season in my College which has rather tied me up! It seems to me that MacIntyre focus upon...
Hello German, I'm also an ethics professor working on my Ph.D. I'm using MacIntyre's model of ethics as a way of study the interaction between Akan and...
Brian, Thanks for the reply. Worth the wait. I agree with a harsh critique of the modern organization based solely on a rational bureaucratic model. My...
Greetings, I am a student in theology in Canada and my research interests are in the areas of virtue ethics and Christian moral theology. Has anyone read or...
Brian Thanks for the tip. The book doesn't seem to be available on Amazon. I take it that one needs to go to the publisher? Business ethics of course is...
Brian, My mistake. I have after all found Nancey Murphy's book in Amazon. The secret: Nancey has an "e" in it. Virtues & Practices in the Christian Tradition :...
Steve, Enron shows what happens where there is no moral story - everything becomes unhinged. It is not possible for institutions to function with no moral ...
My name is Francis Jara. I am student of Filosofia of> the University Catolica Andres Beautiful-Venezuela and Assistant> Of Investigacion in a Center of...
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Hello All, Mark Nation has kindly provided the following comments: The books by Samuel Wells and Arne Rasmusson on Hauerwas have good bibliographies by and...
Brian et al. This has proven incredibly helpful. I look forward to reading Thiessen Nation's dissertation and also hearing from Dr. Huebner. I've studied...
Brian Enron is the extreme case and when a company goes splat like that, everyone is obliged to say, tut, tut, how terrible! But... isn't the more interesting...
Steve et al, ... I'm not sure there is a "we" here. Those who pass laws regulating and enabling corporations in the U.S. aren't exactly conspicuous for...
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Dustin, I think that Hauerwas, in common with other narrative theologians, may have a broadly Barthian view of revelation. Hauerwas sees the Church as the ...
Steve, Good point! Western capitalism pushes automony from tradition to its final limits and attempts to function in a moral void. The Akan would still regard ...
Bruce, My reading really begins with After Virtue I've meant to look at his earlier material but time and pressures of research will not allow. The dilemma to ...
Bruce wrote: "I'm not sure there is a "we" here. Those who pass laws regulating and enabling corporations in the U.S. aren't exactly conspicuous for looking ...
... Of course you're right that all of us should do what we can to oppose the prevailing state of affairs. I am less optimistic than years ago, though, about...
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... You may be right in thinking that a network of cooperatives wholly run and owned by Ghanians may be out of reach economically, but that still seems like...
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Bruce, The economic boycot of Apartheid South Africa was consumer led in direct response to the international appeal of the ANC. Western governments were ...
Bruce writes: ".. all of us should do what we can to oppose the prevailing state of affairs. I am less optimistic than years ago, though, about how much we...
Andres: Your rudimentary English stimulates me to intervene here for the first time from Spain. I have already defended my Doctoral Thesis about MacIntyre in...
Hi folks, I'm Jack Weinstein, I've been watching silently and feel compelled to enter the conversation. I think its worth considering MacIntyre's evolution on...
Hello Jack, But in all of his works MacIntyre does stress tradition and a tradition requires a community to sustain it, wider than just the university. ...
Brian, I think you and I are in agreement regarding the role of tradition. This is THE central concept in MacIntyre's later work. I also think we agree that a ...