1989, University of Notre Dame Press.
ISBN: 0-268-01942-8.
In the book, MacIntyre argues that there are a number of different and incompatible accounts of practical reasoning or rationality — specifically those of Aristotle, Augustine, David Hume (and more broadly the "Scottish school") and Thomas Aquinas.The differing accounts of justice that are presented by Aristotle and Hume, MacIntyre argues, are due to the underlying differences in their conceptual schemes.
I Rival Justices, Competing Rationalities.
II Justice and Action in the Homeric Imagination.
III The Division of the Post-Homeric Inheritance.
IV Athens Put to the Question.
V Plato and Rational Enquiry.
VI Aristotle as Plato's Heir.
VII Aristotle on Justice.
VIII Aristotle on Practical Rationality.
IX The Augustinian Alternative.
X Overcoming a Conflict of Traditions.
XI Aquinas on Practical Rationality and Justice.
XII The Augustinian and Aristotelian Background to Scottish Enlightenment.
XIII Philosophy in the Scottish Social Order.
XIV Hutcheson on Justice and Practical Rationality.
XV Hume's Anglicizing Subversion.
XVI Hume on Practical Rationality and Justice.
XVII Liberalism Transformed into a Tradition.
XVIII The Rationality of Traditions.
XIX Tradition and Translation.
XX Contested Justices, Contested Rationalities.
Index of Persons.