Virtue
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No Narrative, no Virtue; No Virtue, no Narrative
In After Virtue, MacIntyre moves from the chapter “Nietzsche or Aristotle” to a consideration about what virtue meant in what he calls heroic societies—the societies represented in the Homeric epics, the Norse Edda, the Irish stories in the Ulster Cycle, etc. His point is one that I’ve often made—that Christian Europe was always as much
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More on Eudaemonia
[Alasdair MacIntyre seems to be having a moment, and if you want a succinct overview of his thought, David Brooks’s piece today in The Atlantic is pretty good. I’m going to get into the MacIntyre weeds later this summer as part of my longer term Utopian Thinking project. The problem with conservatives like Brooks is
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Is Moral Maturity a Thing?
[Inspired by David Bentley Hart’s All Things, I’m going to use this dialogic form from time to time in hopes that it will make some of my arguments easier to engage with. In this post, I’m attempting to set up why it’s important to understand the argument that Alasdair MacIntyre is making in his After