...dialectical relation to each other. Heeding a general suggestion by Alasdair Maclntyre, I will develop a "conversation between traditions, learning to use...describe and evaluate the other or others by means of it."10 Out of this dialectical conversation I will direct attention to a host of theoretical and practical...

...done by — and only by — our talking together. In Maclntyre's words, each member of a tradition "has to become involved in the conversation between...describe and evaluate the other or others by means of it."33 Only in this way can we deal with the disagreement about moral issues Inow including issues...

...Which Rationality? he argues that there can be a 'conversation between traditions', with those involved 'learning to use the idiom of each in order to describe and evaluate the other or others by means of it' (Maclntyre 1988: 398). However, this is insufficient to allay my reservations. 8 If you want a better...

...encounter is a skill without which no tradition can flourish" (1990, 233). Hence, everyone must learn "how to test dialectically the theses proposed to...and evaluate the other or others by means of it." Strauss puts it well: "No one can be both a philosopher and a theologian, nor, for that matter, some...

...person has to become involved in the conversation between traditions, learning to use the idiom of tach in order to describe and evaluate the other or others...incoherences are best to be characterized, explained, and translated.37 In terms of international law, to proceed in this way is to operate within the frame...