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Determinism. (In: Mind. A Qarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy. Vol. LXVI. No. 261, January, 1957.)
Edinburgh & N. Y., T. Nelson & Sons, 1957. 8vo. Orig. printed grey wrappers w. small nicks to extremities. Internally fine. Pp. 28-41 (the rest of the volume: pp. 1-27, 42-144, [4 pp. advertisements]).
First publication.Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre (1929 - ) is mainly know for his contributions to ethics, being one of the principal exponents of modern virtue ethics, as it is shown in his important work 'After Virtue' (1981) but also already in the popular 'A Short History of Ethics' (1966). Whereas many contemporary philosophers advance philosophical positions by focusing on the logical, analytical or so-called scientific underpinnings, MacIntyre normally utilizes dialectics in order to present a historical narration of the development of ethics in order to illuminate the modern problem of incommensurable moral notions used independently of their original conceptual frameworks. And normally MacIntyre does not solve the conceptual problems he identifies, but argues for one tradition of ethics as being better than the others, namely the special brand of virtue ethics that can be elaborated from Aristotelianism. In the present article, though, he differs a bit form this normal method. He argues, in a traditionally analytic style, for coherent solution of ""the problem of free-will and determinism"" claiming that there ""is no way out of arguing that determinism and a belief in human responsibility are really compatible"". This makes this article a looking-glass into a more rare area of MacIntyre's philosophy.The issue also contains contributions by P. Herbst, O. L. Perry, C. Johnson, J. J. Smart, etc.
