The conflicting evaluations given to moral issues beg for an explanation. Can such an explanation be found in the invisible presence of competing rationalities that result in intractable disputes? This essay seeks to explore how the work of Alasdair MacIntyre can be useful in making visible the way competing traditions of moral inquiry hamper our attempts to make tractable currently intractable disputes in the field of moral theology. A comparison between the approach of MacIntyre and Charles E. Curran aims at developing a methodology for evaluating such competing modes of inquiry.

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质疑疑难杂症的微妙艺术

对道德问题的相互矛盾的评价需要解释。这样的解释能否在导致难以解决的争端的竞争理性的无形存在中找到？本文旨在探讨阿拉斯代尔·麦金太尔 (Alasdair MacIntyre) 的工作如何有助于使相互竞争的道德探究传统阻碍我们在道德神学领域解决当前难以解决的争议的尝试。MacIntyre 和 Charles E. Curran 的方法之间的比较旨在开发一种方法来评估这种相互竞争的探究模式。