Moral Philosophy after Austin and Wittgenstein: Stanley Cavell and Donald MacKinnon
There are broad commonalities between the projects of Donald MacKinnon (1913-1994) and Stanley Cavell (1926-) sufficient to make the claim that they struck an analogous pose in their respective contexts. This is not to discount their manifest differences. In the milieu of 1960s and 1970s Cambridge,...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2018]
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Studies in Christian ethics
Year: 2018, Volume: 31, Issue: 1, Pages: 49-64 |
| RelBib Classification: | NBF Christology NCA Ethics TK Recent history VA Philosophy |
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| Summary: | There are broad commonalities between the projects of Donald MacKinnon (1913-1994) and Stanley Cavell (1926-) sufficient to make the claim that they struck an analogous pose in their respective contexts. This is not to discount their manifest differences. In the milieu of 1960s and 1970s Cambridge, MacKinnon argued in support of a qualified language of metaphysics in the service of a renewed catholic humanism and Christian socialism. At Harvard, Cavell articulated commitments that made him more at home in the world of North American secular political liberalism. Where Nietzsche, Hume, Freud, Heidegger, Emerson and Thoreau were Cavells inspirations, Butler, Kant, G. E. Moore, Collingwood and the New Testament were MacKinnons. For all the stark differences, commonalities abound and the reason for this can be traced to a shared appreciation of Austins contribution to the lingusitic turn together with Wittgensteins later work. They both developed projects obsessed with the problem of scepticism together with a commitment to a creative re-animation of moral discourse in light of it, with MacKinnon defending a qualified moral realism, and Cavell, moral perfectionism. Seen together, a distinctive post-Kantian and post-Wittgensteinian therapeutic moral philosophy is in evidence. |
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| ISSN: | 0953-9468 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studies in Christian ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0953946817737927 |