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1、BookReviewsCOGENCYVol.2,N0.2(135-148),Spring2010ISSN0718-8285LawrenceS.Cunningham(ed.),IntractableDisputesabouttheNaturalLaw:AlasdairMacIntyreandCritics.NotreDame:UniversityofNotreDamePress,2009,374pp.ISBN978-0-268-12300-3,$30(pbk).CalvinHayesFacultyofBusiness,BrockUniv
2、ersity,St.CatharinesOnt.,Canada.chayes@brocku.caReceived:11-6-2010Accepted:22-11-20101.IntroductionReadersofajournaldevotedtoreasoningandargumentationshouldfindabookdiscussingAlasdairMcIntyre’stheoriesonmoralreasoningandargu-mentsveryinteresting.Forover30yearsMacIntyreh
3、asbeendevelopingasophisticatedyetcontroversialtheoryofmoralreasoningandargument.ItisbasedonacombinationofAristotle,Thomismandpost-moderncritiquesofliberalindividualismandofthesecular,moraltheoriesundergirdingit.Inhismanywritingsoverthatperiod,heprimarilyaddressessecular
4、phi-losophersandsocialscientistsinterestedinthesematters.Inthisbook,headdresseshisfellowCatholicscholarsbutincludesupdatedcritiquesofthemajorWesternsecularmoralphilosophiesoftheEnlightenmentandmo-dernity:Utilitarianism,KantianismandSocialContracttheories.Themaindifferen
5、cebetweenthisbookandhiswritingsfromthe1980s(1984,1988)isthathenowseemsopentoincludingnaturalrightsunderthemedievalCatholictheoryofnaturallaw.ThebookresultedfromarequestfromCar-dinalRatzinger1thattheUniversityofNotreDamestudythecomplexis-1CardinalRatzingerisnowPopeBenedi
6、ctXVI(asIsuspectmost,ifnotall,readersofthisjournalknow).Sincealmostallthecontributors,includingMacIntyre,refertohimby135COGENCYVol.2,N0.2,Spring2010suesindiscussionsaboutnaturallawandnaturalrights,whichMcIntyredismissedasfictionsinAfterVirtue(hereafterAV).Thebookhastenc
7、hapters.ThefirstandfinalchapterswerewrittenbyMacIntyre.Chapter1,“IntractableMoralDisagreements”introducesthetwomajorthemesofthebook:whydocontemporarymoraldebatesseemsointractable?CanNaturalLawresolvethesedisagreementsmorerationallythanpost-Enlightenmentmodernistmoralthe
8、oriesseemableto?Thefirstchapterisfollowedbyarticlesfromeightdifferentscholarsfromdifferentdisciplinesunitedbyt
