Building Virtue Takes Practice: Lessons From Alasdair MacIntyre
COMMENTARY: The late Alasdair MacIntyre desired that new forms of community life could be created where morality and civility would thrive.
COMMENTARY: The late Alasdair MacIntyre desired that new forms of community life could be created where morality and civility would thrive.
The towering figure in moral philosophy, who was credited with reviving the discipline of virtue ethics, died on May 21. MacIntyre’s striking intellect, razor-sharp wit, and exacting teaching profoundly influenced generations of students and academics.
During the presentation, he argued that the modern term “human dignity” is doing the work that justice should be doing and that the current definition of human dignity and its implications have puzzling limitations.
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