Craft as a Place of Knowing in Natural Law
McCarthy, David M. Pinches, Charles R.
McCarthy, David M.
Pinches, Charles R.
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The article offers a proposal about natural law inquiry in terms of knowledge attendant in the practices of a craft. We begin by discussing Aristotle’s analogical use of crafts in considering knowledge of ethics and politics in the Nicomachean Ethics. We inquire further into craft as a way of knowing by consulting the works of psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and sociologist Richard Sennett. The framework of a craft is connected to moral realism through an analysis of works by Iris Murdoch and Simone Weil. Finally we provide a proposal for natural law inquiry in relation to the embodied and embedded nature of craft.
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2016-11-01
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SAGE-10.1177/0953946815610022
ISSN-PRINT-0953-9468
ISSN-ELECT-1745-5235
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0953946815610022
ISSN-PRINT-0953-9468
ISSN-ELECT-1745-5235
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0953946815610022
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10.1177/0953946815610022
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