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Nussbaum on Luck
Author(s): Stanley H. Hauerwas
Source: Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 72, No. 4, A SYMPOSIUM ON: The
Fraglity of Goodness (Winter 1989), pp. 675-691
Published by: Penn State University Press
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CAN ARISTOTLE BE A LIBERAL?
Nussbaum on Luck
Stanley H. Hauerwas
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676 SOUNDINGS Stanley H. Hauerwas
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Can Aristotle Be a Liberal? 677
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678 SOUNDINGS Stanley H. Hauerwas
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Can Aristotle Be a Liberal? 679
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680 SOUNDINGS Stanley H. Hauerwas
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Can Aristotle Be a Liberal? 681
But it surely seems odd to call such matters "facts." That such
facts are said to exist at all only seems intelligible this side of
Kant - in short, it seems intelligible only if one still has a com-
mitment to something like what Maclntyre calls the "liberal tra-
dition" and its corresponding epistemological alternatives.
I hope it is clear that the question I am trying to pose con-
cerning Nussbaum's methodological presuppositions betrays a
profound admiration for her work. The suggestion she is a
"liberal" is not an attempt to put a label on her. Liberalism is,
of course, a far too protean phenomenon to allow for such la-
beling. Certainly it is not sufficient to indicate her disagree-
ment with Maclntyre to make her part of the "Enlightenment
project." She may have no greater stake in the liberal project
than Maclntyre, but she does seem to have a more hopeful view
of our social alternatives.
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682 SOUNDINGS Stanley H. Hauerwas
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Can Aristotle Be a Liberal? 683
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684 SOUNDINGS Stanley H. Hauerwas
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Can Aristotle Be a Liberal? 685
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686 SOUNDINGS Stanley H. Hauerwas
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Can Aristotle Be a Liberal? 687
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688 SOUNDINGS Stanley H. Hauerwas
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Can Aristotle Be a Liberal? 689
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690 SOUNDINGS Stanley H. Hauerwas
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Can Aristotle Be a Liberal? 691
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