References for Theme: The Tasks of Philosophy: Selected Essays, Volume 1
- MacIntyre, Alasdair
- The Tasks of Philosophy: Selected Essays, Volume 1 (2006)
(p.156) The telos/finis of any type of systematic activity is, on an Aristotelian and Thomistic view, that end internal to activity of that specific kind, for the sake of which and in the direction of which activity of that kind is carried forward. Many types of activity, of course, are intelligible as human activities only because and insofar as they are embedded in some other type of activity, and some types of such activity may be embedded in any one of a number of other types of intelligible activity. So it is, for example, with tree-felling, which may as an activity...
- The Tasks of Philosophy: Selected Essays, Volume 1 (2006)
(p.194) To understand oneself as having such a determinate and shared nature and correspondingly a well-defined place in the order of things is, on a Thomistic view, to understand oneself as a part of more than one whole, constituted as what one is not only by the relation of oneself as individual human being to one’s household and family, and to the good of that household and family, and of oneself and one’s family to the local political community, and to the good of that community, and of oneself, one’s family, and one’s political community to the whole natural order and...
- The Tasks of Philosophy: Selected Essays, Volume 1 (2006)
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