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Michael Fuller, Making Sense of MacIntyre (Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1998), p. 76.
See Robert, Northcott,”Comparing apples with Oranges,” Analysis, vol. 65, no. 1.
Elizabeth Anderson, “Practical Reason and Incommensurable Goods,” in Ruth Chang, ed., Incommensurability, Incomparability, and Practical Reason (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997), p. 98.
See Kurt Von Fritz, “The Discovery of Incommensurability by Hippasus of Metapontum,” The Annals of Mathematics, vol. 46, no. 2, p. 242.
See Alastair MacIntyre, “Epistemological Crisis, Dramatic Narrative, and the Philosophy of Science,” in The Monist, vol. 60, 1977.
See Bernard Williams, “Conflicts of Values,” in Bernard Williams, Moral Luck (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press), see Isaiah Berlin, Four Essays on Liberty (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1969); Thomas Nagel “War and Massacre,” in Philosophy and Public Affairs,” vol. 1, 1972; Thomas Nagel, “The Fragmentation of Value,” in Christopher Gowans, ed., Moral Dilemmas (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987); Martha Nussbaum, “Aeschylus and Practical Conflict,” Ethics, vol. 95; Martha Nussbaum The Fragility of Goodness (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1986); and Martha Nussbaum, “Why Practice Needs Ethical Theory: Particularism, Principle, and Bad Behaviour,” in Brad Hooker and Margaret Little, eds., Moral Particularism (Oxford: University Press, 2000).
Anderson, op. cit., 1997, p. 99.
Ibid., p. 104.
Ibid., p. 107.
Ruth Chang, “Introduction,” in Ruth Chang, ed., Incommensurability, Incomparability, and Practical Reason (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997), p. 5.
Ibid.
Ibid., p. 6.
Ibid.
Anderson, op. cit., p. 105.
See MacIntyre, op. cit., pp. 187–189.
Ibid., p. 188.
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, trans. Terence Irwin (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1985), pp. 1–2.
Special thanks are due to David Wong, Larry Krasnoff, Hugh Lacey, and anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on earlier versions of this article. I would also like to thank Thomas Magnell, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Value Inquiry, for his comments and help. Any remaining flaws are my own.
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Williams, A.M. Comparing Incommensurables. J Value Inquiry 45, 267–277 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-011-9296-7
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