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" What is good for me has to be the good for one who inhabits these roles." Open-ended though it be, the story of my life is always embedded in the story of those communities from which I derive my identity — whether family or city, tribe or nation, party... "
Tradition and Modernity: Philosophical Reflections on the African Experience - Page 59
by Kwame Gyekye - 1997 - 360 pages
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Das Europa Lateinamerikas: Aspekte einer 500jährigen Wechselbeziehung

Christoph Strosetzki - History - 1989 - 336 pages
...a variety of debts. ..These constitute the given of my life, my moral starting point'. He goes on, 'the story of my life is always embedded in the story...those communities from which I derive my identity'; A.MacIntyre A/ier Virtue London, Duckworth (1981), 204-5. 3 1 See Landauer (1978), 106ff. However there...
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Liberalism, Community, and Culture

Will Kymlicka - Political Science - 1991 - 292 pages
...Maclntyre's argument against liberal individualism is similar to Sandel's. It rests on the claim that 'the story of my life is always embedded in the story...those communities from which I derive my identity' (Maclntyre p. 205), so that deciding how I should live is just a matter of coming to an awareness of...
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Insights Into Teachers' Thinking and Practice

Christopher Day, Maureen L. Pope, Pam Denicolo - Teachers - 1990 - 336 pages
...particular practices to be transmitted and transformed and also gives meaning to the individual story, for 'the story of my life is always embedded in the...those communities from which I derive my identity.' (p. 221) These three features, the practice, the individual story in its particular narrative ordering,...
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Socialism and the Law: Association for Legal and Social ..., Issues 45-49

Association for Legal and Social Philosophy (Great Britain). Conference - Law - 1992 - 164 pages
...a variety of debts. ..These constitute the given of my life, my moral starting point'. He goes on, 'the story of my life is always embedded in the story...those communities from which I derive my identity'; A.MacIntyre After Virtue London, Duckworth (1981), 204-5. 31 See Landauer (1978), 106ff. However there...
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Beyond Individualism: Reconstituting the Liberal Self

Jack Crittenden - Political Science - 1992 - 241 pages
...very conditions for securing personality, social cohesion, and moral coherence. The story of one's life is always embedded in the story of those communities from which one derives identity. What modern man, and modern society, needs to do is reinstate the Ideological...
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Information and Communication in Economics

Robert E. Babe - Business & Economics - 1993 - 374 pages
...communities we inhabit, then we must also be implicated in the purposes and ends of those communities. The story of my life is always embedded in the story...those communities from which I derive my identity — whether family or city, tribe or nation, party or cause. On a communications view, the narratives...
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Citizenship and Social Rights: The Interdependence of Self and Society

Fred Twine - Social Science - 1994 - 212 pages
...one is born, or is brought up. . . . these give a person's life "its own moral particularity" . . . the story of my life is always embedded in the story...those communities from which I derive my identity' (1981: 205, quoted in Parry, 1991: 182). What we are or are able to become depends to an important...
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Corporate Responsibility in the Hebrew Bible

Joel S. Kaminsky - Religion - 1995 - 224 pages
...narrative framework.7 And narrative frameworks are created by communities, not by autonomous individuals. For the story of my life is always embedded in the...born with a past; and to try to cut myself off from the past, in the individualist mode, is to deform my present relationship. The possesion of an historical...
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A Disease of One's Own: Psychotherapy, Addiction, and the Emergence of Co ...

John Steadman Rice - Psychology - 268 pages
...to be a member of a community to be a self."3 Maclntyre, making much the same point, observes that "the story of my life is always embedded in the story of those communities from which I derive my identity."4 It is important to recognize that those who emphasize the social and cultural foundations...
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Earthly Goods: Environmental Change and Social Justice

Fen Osler Hampson, Judith Reppy - Business & Economics - 1996 - 284 pages
...then we must also be implicated in the purposes and ends characteristic of those communities . . . the story of my life is always embedded in the story...those communities from which I derive my identity — whether fam15 See Philip Howell, "The Aspiration towards Universality in Political Theory and Political...
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