Anyone interested in the necessity of understanding history for philosophical and moral thinking ought to read MacIntyre's Whose Justice, Which Rationality. It

Anyone interested in the necessity of understanding history for philosophical and moral thinking ought to read MacIntyre's Whose Justice, Which Rationality. It argues that a "history-constituted tradition" is the inevitable system in which we make intellectual progress, and analyses the major movements in philosophy as support. http://www.amazon.com/Whose-Justice-Rationality-Alasdair-Macintyre/dp/0268019444/ http://www.amazon.com/Whose-Justice-Rationality-Alasdair-Mac...