After Virtue

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After Virtue

• By Alasdair MacIntyre

Presentation by Steve Daly
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The Story of A and B
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B

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The Story of A and B
B
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The State of Modern Moral Discussion
Incompatible
Grave Disorder
Incommensurable
Interminable
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Ignorance as a Way of Life
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Emotivism
Expressions of Preference
Expressions of Attitude or Feeling
Rationally Interminable
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How We Got Here
Process of Historical Change
Changing Catalog of the Virtues
Changing Conception of the Virtues
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Changing Catalog of the Virtues
Heroic Societies
Virtue as Excellence of any kind
Strength
Cunning
Combat and Games
Courage as accepting ones fate and ultimate death
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Changing Catalog of the Virtues
Aristotle/Athens
Friendship
Judgment
Justice
Sophrosune
Courage
Self-Restraint
Wisdom
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Changing Catalog of the Virtues
Christianity Theological Virtues
Faith
Hope
Charity
Humility
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Changing Catalog of the Virtues
Medieval
Prudence
Temperance
Patience
Purity
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Changing Catalog of the Virtues
Modernity
Benjamin Franklin cleanliness, silence and
industry
Jane Austen Constancy
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Changing Conception of the Virtues
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Heroic Societies
Changing Conception of the Virtues
Role
Society
Status
Universal
Local
Actions
Particular
Household
Tradition
Unquestioned
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Changing Conception of the Virtues
Aristotle(Athens)
Family
City-State (polis)
The Good/Goods/The Good for Man
Local and Particular (Athens)
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Changing Conception of the Virtues
Aristotle(Athens)
City-State (polis)
The Good/Goods/The Good for Man
Local and Particular (Athens)
Roles
Telos
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Changing Conception of the Virtues
Aristotle(Athens)
City-State (polis)
The Good/Goods/The Good for Man
Local and Particular (Athens)
Telos
Virtues are dispositions
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Changing Conception of the Virtues
Middle Ages
Synthesizing
Conflicts
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Changing Conception of the Virtues
Middle Ages
Synthesizing
Conflicts
Stocism
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Changing Conception of the Virtues
Modernity
Pre-Moderity
The Individual
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The Modern Search for an Adequate Telos
Hume Passions
Kant Reason
Kierkegaard Criterionless choice
Utility and Rights
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MacIntyres Conception of Virtue
Selfhood
Actions
Social identity
Whole human life
Narrative
History
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MacIntyres Conception of Virtue
Interwoven Narratives
Constraints
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MacIntyres Conception of Virtue
Unpredictability
Teleological
Form
Telos
Shared Future
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MacIntyres Conception of Virtue
What is the good for me?
What is the good for Man?
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MacIntyres Conception of Virtue
Quest for the Good
Self-Knowledge
Dispositions
Knowledge of the Good
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MacIntyres Conception of Virtue
History
I inherit from the past
My moral starting point
My lifes own moral particularity