Coronavirus and the Cult of Expertise
by Nathan PinkoskiDo the managerial experts performing within the drama of this crisis have an adequate understanding of the hierarchy of human goods? Continue Reading »
Love Is Not a Feeling
by Carl R. TruemanGeorgetown Visitation’s policy change does not represent a more Christian approach, but actually expresses the secular mindset in a Christian idiom. Continue Reading »
Taleb the Philosopher
by Joshua P. HochschildIncerto: Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, The Bed of Procrustes, Antifragile by nassim nicholas taleb random house, 1,568 pages, $70 Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by nassim nicholas taleb random house, 304 pages, $30 Boethius’s ambitious goal to synthesize all . . . . Continue Reading »
MacIntyre Against Morality
by John HaldaneEthics in the Conflicts of Modernity:An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrativeby alasdair macintyrecambridge, 332 pages, $49.99 I The dialogues of Plato provide the first sustained demonstration both of the depth and difficulty of philosophy, and of the fact that the beginnings of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Speedos or Shorts? Bikinis or Bathing Suits?
by Carl R. TruemanThe world that Reich built does not simply want to revise concepts of sexual decorum; It wants to eradicate them.
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The Marx-Shaped Void: Bernard Yack on Alasdair MacIntyre and Monolithic Modernity
by Carl ScottFrom a book review highlighted by our friends at First Thoughts: “Marxists can account for the singular, closed character of modern society by invoking Marx’s theory of historical materialism. As we produce, so we are. Our families, our friendships, our associations, our imagination, . . . . Continue Reading »
Waiting for St. Vladimir
by Robert T. MillerAlasdair MacIntyre, who is probably the greatest living philosopher, concludes his 1981 masterwork After Virtue by saying, “We are waiting not for a Godot, but for another—doubtless very different—St. Benedict.” In that book MacIntyre argues that a correct understanding of morality is based . . . . Continue Reading »
MacIntyre Lecture Live
by Will WilsonAs promised before , here is a link to Alasdair MacIntyre’s lecture at CUA on the topic “Ends and Endings”, and here is the video embedded in a frame. . . . . Continue Reading »
Politics without Politics
by Will WilsonI was very privileged to be able to attend a lecture by Alasdair MacIntyre at Catholic University here in DC over the weekend. The topic was “Ends and Endings”, and the speech was a delightfully rambling overview of the connections between teleology and literature, ethics and . . . . Continue Reading »
The Achievement of Alasdair MacIntyre
by Edward T. OakesMoral philosophers are caught in a peculiar paradox these days. On the one hand, their field is flourishing: No longer intimidated by the logical positivists (who denied truth to moral assertions except as expressions of likes and dislikes), thinkers as diverse as Iris Murdoch, Martha Nussbaum, and . . . . Continue Reading »
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