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Whose Justice? Which Rationality?
MacIntyre's 1988 sequel to After Virtue, arguing that there is no tradition-independent standpoint from which competing claims about justice and rationality can be adjudicated — the framework for asking Whose AI?.
Whose Justice? Which Rationality? extends the argument of After Virtue by examining four rival traditions of moral inquiry — Aristotelian, Augustinian, Scottish Enlightenment (as represented by Hume), and liberal — and demonstrating that their conceptions of justice and rationality are mutually incompatible and cannot be adjudicated from any standpoint external to the traditions themselves. The book's central claim is that evaluative rationality is always tradition-constituted: it has content only within a particular tradition, and the attempt to evaluate from a tradition-independent standpoint — the characteristic aspiration of the Enlightenment — is both incoherent and concealing. The book's title question can be extended to AI: whose conception of excellence does the system encode? Whose standards of justice does it apply?
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The core argument proceeds through detailed historical analysis of the four traditions, showing how each develops its conception of justice from within its own framework of assumptions about human nature, the