Jazz as an Example of MacIntyre’s Notion of Practice
http://percaritatem.com/2014/04/20/jazz-as-an-example-of-macintyres-notion-of-practice/?fb_action_ids=10202466926689079&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582#sthash.yH2kMSDW.dpbs By Cynthia R. Nielsen 20‑Apr‑2014 No comments In his work, After Virtue , MacIntyre provides a multifaceted definition of practice as well as a helpful discussion of a practice’s internal and external goods. As he explains, a practice is any coherent and complex form of socially established cooperative human activity through which goods internal to that form of activity are realized in the course of trying to achieve those standards of excellence which are appropriate to, and partially definitive of, that form of activity.[1] Clearly, jazz qualifies as a complex, socially created, communal human activity. The excellent jazz improviser, for example, must achieve a high level of technic...