A Brief Rejoinder

Abstract: Two main points in Maclntyre’s reply to my Rights and Virtues are shown to be incorrect. First, the right-claims I attribute to every agent are based on the needs of action, and the correlative “must” hence falls within the recognized language of practical advocacy. Second, the ‘conative normality’ I attribute to all agents is not confined to ‘the individualistic social order of modernity’ but instead characterizes every agent who wants to act for the fulfillment of his or her purposes.

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: A Brief Rejoinder ; volume:7 ; number:2 ; year:1985 ; pages:249-250 ; extent:2 ; Analyse & Kritik ; 7, Heft 2 (1985), 249-250 (gesamt 2)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Gewirth, Alan

Further information

• DOI: 10.1515/auk-1985-0209
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2404171549486.881276452262
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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