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32 Emmanuel Levinas, 33 For a helpful discussion, see Mary Midgley, 34 Donna J. HarA. Cohen (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003).Morality (New York: Routledge, 1994).away, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of NatureHumanism of the OtherEthical Primate: Humans, Freedom and , trans. N. Poller, intro. Richard (New
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37 Alasdair MacIntrye has been the most insistent on the idea of the school among also Werner Jaeger, Marquette University Press, 1943).virtue theorists. See his Tradition (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1990). For a Christian Humanism and TheologyThree Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopedia, Genealogy, , The Aquinas Lecture 7 (Milwaukee:
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42 Midgley, 43 Of course, given the fallibility and folly of all things human, it is not possible to Wolin, “Foucault the Neohumanist?” in 53(2006) no. 2: B12.give an unquestionable “proof ” for the necessity of a theological stance in ethics. The Ethical Primate, p. 168. The Chronicle of Higher Education^
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