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In this July 2025 lecture, Tim McIntosh describes moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre’s intellectual conversion to a synthesis of Aristotelian ethics and Christianity, best embodied in Thomism. MacIntyre believed that the Enlightenment’s rejection of a teleological basis for doing ethics doomed the project to failure. That failure is manifested in modernity’s concept of morality as rule-based rather than that which helps human beings to flourish and to move toward our ultimate end. McIntosh discusses why Nietzsche was MacIntyre’s surprising “co-belligerent,” arguing that Nietzsche’s critique of the Enlightenment is sophisticated and worth some attention (though his solutions are not). McIntosh explores the power of MacIntyre’s After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory (University of Notre Dame Press, 1981) and explains how his moral reasoning is meant to be considered in the context of communities, not in individual isolation.
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Guests on Volume 167
- NICHOLAS CARR, author of Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart, on how social media affects our brains and our relationships
- THOMAS WARD, author of After Stoicism: Last Words of the Last Roman Philosopher, on Boethius — the Christian — and Stoicism
- JOSEPH STUART, author of Christopher Dawson: A Cultural Mind in the Age of the Great War, on Dawson’s forgotten legacy
- STEVEN KNEPPER & ROBERT WYLLIE, authors of Byung-Chul Han: A Critical Introduction, on key themes in the contemporary philosopher’s work
- EPHRAIM RADNER, author of Mortal Goods: Reimagining Christian Political Duty, on the flawed modern narrative of ‘‘betterment”
- ANDREW WILLARD JONES, author of The Church Against the State: On Subsidiarity and Sovereignty, on reality, friendship, and analogical participation