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Rights, Virtue, and Others in MacIntyre

Community After the Fall

Joel Pierce

Rights, Virtue, and Others in MacIntyre: Community After the Fall demonstrates that human rights are not anathema to MacIntyre’s vision of practices, virtue, and tradition, but rather are necessary to stop that vision being appropriated in problematic ways and to help it take those outside one’s own community seriously. This work brings MacIntyre into extended conversation with historians such as Brian Tierney and Charles Reid as well as with postcolonial thinkers and theologians such as Edward Said and Willie James Jenning, demonstrating that each has something to say to MacIntyre about the limits of virtue’s vision. MacIntyre’s readings of historical theologians, including Ockham and Vitoria, are brought into question, with each being shown to demonstrate how rights can act to complete, rather than undermine MacIntyre’s program. What emerges is a MacIntyrean understanding of rights in which they act as historically discerned constraints against the excesses of institutional power.

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Lexington Books / Fortress Academic
Pages: 252 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9¼
978-1-9787-1620-9 • Hardback • August 2024 • $115.00 • (£88.00)
978-1-9787-1621-6 • eBook • August 2024 • $50.00 • (£38.00)
Subjects: Religion / Christian Theology / Ethics, Religion / Theology, Religion / Philosophy

Joel Pierce is the administrator of Christ’s College at the University of Aberdeen and also serves as an associate tutor at the Scottish Episcopal Institute.

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: A World without Rights?

Chapter 2: The Limits of Virtue’s Vision

Chapter 3: Rights as a Nominalist-Voluntarist Mistake?

Chapter 4: Rights as Balanced Freedom

Chapter 5: Vitoria, Colonialism, and Natural Law

Chapter 6: Remaking the Ius Gentium

Chapter 7: How to Listen to a Right

Bibliography

About the Author

Christians today often dismiss political ideas that are core to modern secular liberalism in a manner that leads them directly into the illiberal politics that has gained such force in the contemporary west. Rather than rejecting liberal politics outright, Joel Pierce offers a supple and conversation-opening call for Christian involvement in public discourse by showing us what core concepts like rights language are doing in our political discourse today. A wonderfully readable introduction to the political philosophy of Alasdair MacIntyre, who has so deeply influenced a whole generation of contemporary Christian modernity critics.


— Brian Brock, University of Aberdeen


Is there an alliance between Christian fans of Alasdair MacIntyre and illiberal nationalism? Exactly twenty years ago, Jeffrey Stout warned of such a link if MacIntyre continued to be taught in American seminaries. Now, with populism on the rise, Joel Pierce delivers a careful answer. Pierce argues for a novel reading of Vitoria’s law of nations that follows in MacIntyre’s footsteps but displays greater global inclusion, dialogue, and humility.


— John Perry, University of St. Andrews, Scotland


In this rich and compelling book, Joel Pierce provides a robust defense of human rights in dialogue with opponents of rights-talk such as Alasdair McIntyre, John Milbank, Stanley Hauerwas and Joan and Oliver O’Donovan. Taking the concerns of these opponents seriously, Pierce carefully engages with Francisco de Vitoria’s ius gentium to construct a ‘non-ethically imperialist’ account of rights, one which can help facilitate individual and communal flourishing today. This is an outstanding book that makes an important contribution to political theology.


— Michael Mawson, University of Auckland


Rights, Virtue, and Others in MacIntyre

Community After the Fall

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Hardback
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Summary
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  • Rights, Virtue, and Others in MacIntyre: Community After the Fall demonstrates that human rights are not anathema to MacIntyre’s vision of practices, virtue, and tradition, but rather are necessary to stop that vision being appropriated in problematic ways and to help it take those outside one’s own community seriously. This work brings MacIntyre into extended conversation with historians such as Brian Tierney and Charles Reid as well as with postcolonial thinkers and theologians such as Edward Said and Willie James Jenning, demonstrating that each has something to say to MacIntyre about the limits of virtue’s vision. MacIntyre’s readings of historical theologians, including Ockham and Vitoria, are brought into question, with each being shown to demonstrate how rights can act to complete, rather than undermine MacIntyre’s program. What emerges is a MacIntyrean understanding of rights in which they act as historically discerned constraints against the excesses of institutional power.

Details
Details
  • Lexington Books / Fortress Academic
    Pages: 252 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9¼
    978-1-9787-1620-9 • Hardback • August 2024 • $115.00 • (£88.00)
    978-1-9787-1621-6 • eBook • August 2024 • $50.00 • (£38.00)
    Subjects: Religion / Christian Theology / Ethics, Religion / Theology, Religion / Philosophy
Author
Author
  • Joel Pierce is the administrator of Christ’s College at the University of Aberdeen and also serves as an associate tutor at the Scottish Episcopal Institute.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Dedication

    Acknowledgments

    Introduction

    Chapter 1: A World without Rights?

    Chapter 2: The Limits of Virtue’s Vision

    Chapter 3: Rights as a Nominalist-Voluntarist Mistake?

    Chapter 4: Rights as Balanced Freedom

    Chapter 5: Vitoria, Colonialism, and Natural Law

    Chapter 6: Remaking the Ius Gentium

    Chapter 7: How to Listen to a Right

    Bibliography

    About the Author

Reviews
Reviews
  • Christians today often dismiss political ideas that are core to modern secular liberalism in a manner that leads them directly into the illiberal politics that has gained such force in the contemporary west. Rather than rejecting liberal politics outright, Joel Pierce offers a supple and conversation-opening call for Christian involvement in public discourse by showing us what core concepts like rights language are doing in our political discourse today. A wonderfully readable introduction to the political philosophy of Alasdair MacIntyre, who has so deeply influenced a whole generation of contemporary Christian modernity critics.


    — Brian Brock, University of Aberdeen


    Is there an alliance between Christian fans of Alasdair MacIntyre and illiberal nationalism? Exactly twenty years ago, Jeffrey Stout warned of such a link if MacIntyre continued to be taught in American seminaries. Now, with populism on the rise, Joel Pierce delivers a careful answer. Pierce argues for a novel reading of Vitoria’s law of nations that follows in MacIntyre’s footsteps but displays greater global inclusion, dialogue, and humility.


    — John Perry, University of St. Andrews, Scotland


    In this rich and compelling book, Joel Pierce provides a robust defense of human rights in dialogue with opponents of rights-talk such as Alasdair McIntyre, John Milbank, Stanley Hauerwas and Joan and Oliver O’Donovan. Taking the concerns of these opponents seriously, Pierce carefully engages with Francisco de Vitoria’s ius gentium to construct a ‘non-ethically imperialist’ account of rights, one which can help facilitate individual and communal flourishing today. This is an outstanding book that makes an important contribution to political theology.


    — Michael Mawson, University of Auckland


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