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Donald M. MacKinnon
André Peter Muller
其他書名
The True Service of the Particular, 1913-1959 : a Thesis Submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Otago, Dunedin
出版
University of Otago
, 2010
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ztvxZwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
In 1947, having spent the previous two years as a Tutor in Philosophy at Lord Lindsay's Balliol, MacKinnon left Oxford to take up the Regius Chair of Moral Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. Continuing his protest against the logic that had led to acceptance of the threat of atomic warfare as a necessary evil, MacKinnon found in the theology of Karl Barth, Hans Urs von Balthasar and Louis Bouyer, as well as in the sermons of Henry Scott Holland, the articulation of a Christian account of hope that was all the more powerful for its deep preoccupation with Christology. In Aberdeen MacKinnon also developed a conception of his task as a philosopher in critical dialogue with the Oxford language philosophy of Gilbert Ryle, J.L. Austin, and others, the Wittgensteinian philosopher John Wisdom, R G Collingwood's philosophy of history, and the styles of metaphysical agnosticism defended by Karl Popper, Antony Flew, and Berlin. This would lead to the publication in1957 of A Study in Ethical Theory, in which MacKinnon explored, among other things, the difficult relationship between the convictions central to Kant's ethics and the religious commitments of the believer. On the retirement of H.H. Farmer in 1960 MacKinnon was invited to take up the Norris-Hulse Chair in Divinity. He would spend the next seventeen years of his life teaching and writing on the philosophy of religion in Cambridge, where he would continue to occupy a place on what he called "the borderlands of theology", and would come to influence a number of pupils who would go on to play important roles within British intellectual life. Retiring to Aberdeen in the late 1970s, MacKinnon continued to be involved in academic life both north and south of the border, dying at the age of eighty on 2 March 1994.
