Is Purely Practical Agreement Possible?: Maritain’s Mexico City Thesis Answers Some MacIntyrian Challenges
In 1947, Jacques Maritain argued before the UN that "men mutually opposed in their theoretical conceptions can come to a merely practical agreement regarding a list of human rights." Maritain justified this thesis using a progressive theory of the natural law which rests on a distinction b...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2018]
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Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association
Year: 2018, Volume: 92, Pages: 175-188 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history NCA Ethics |
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| Summary: | In 1947, Jacques Maritain argued before the UN that "men mutually opposed in their theoretical conceptions can come to a merely practical agreement regarding a list of human rights." Maritain justified this thesis using a progressive theory of the natural law which rests on a distinction between the natural law as operative in human nature and the natural law as known and articulated. Drawing on Maritain’s 1951 Man and the State, this essay defends a MacIntyrian reading of Maritain’s thesis and its plausibility against four objections from Ralph McInerny, Charles Taylor, and Alasdair MacIntyre himself. |
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| ISSN: | 2153-7925 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American Catholic Philosophical Association, Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/acpaproc201892102 |
