(therefore an integral-like 'subsumes *and* integrates') 4- therefore moral conflict/identifying what is right depends not on a rational battle but on historicist shift in traditions and lived life in communities
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I'll say here that I thinks he gives a narrative of meta-rationality which, unlike most current analysis (of us who are 'in our heads') is embodied and not even in individual embodiment (which I assume you can connect to dzogchen?) but in community/traditional embodiment (ditto?)
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And I'm losing my grasp on the next steps so will revert to my 'literally over-wrought' 1996 undergraduate theses: https://model.report/s/nwni2n/benjamin_taylor_-_does_alasdair_macintyre_identify_a_rationally_acceptable_system_of_ethics … where apparently the narrative goes: a) modern ethics is a cargo-cult world of reification of concepts devoid of context, therefore f meaning
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b) once you understand that moral meaning arises from community, practices, tradition, what looks like interminable moral irresolvability becomes incommernsurability in the Kuhnian sense c) in a Kuhnian crisis, this incommensurability can break down in new meaning-making
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d) (blurred recollection) contextualist epistemology and rationality within a tradition depend on the possibility of the creation of a coherent *narrative* (this becomes important later)
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e) so there's an enacted version of historicism and moral/epistemic meaning which allows hermeutical meaning-making And then, erm, from being a young Scottish Marxist academic in Manchester... he ends up as an Aristotelian Thomist at Notre Dame University...
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...Tomism (i) being the most explicitly hermeneutical worldview (interpreting the Word of God, though, which introduces both realism and transcendence) and (ii) having won the paradigm-tradition battle (in his opinion).
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Smart-arse me aged 20 or whatever saw this as the transition from one myth of history to another. I urge you not to read my thesis, but the quote to follow is potentially explanatory:
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'rationality is nowhere to be found outside its embodiment in a tradition of enquiry within a larger social tradition. Traditions may communicate despite incommensurability, and prove their rational superiority by overcoming and explaining the problems of other traditions.'
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So it's not his total argument that I'm pointing to but the clear-eyed analysis of post-modern breakdown of meaning and meta-narrative of meaning. That was a bit more than a sentence or two, sorry. [Ends and gets back to the proposal he's supposed to be writing...]
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Thank you! Best wishes for the proposal!
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