Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦“What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of #community within which #civility and the #intellectual and #moral life can be sustained through the new #darkages which are already upon us.” - #AlisdairMacIntyre, #AfterVirtue
“A #quest is always an #education both as to what is sought and in #self-knowledge.” - #AlisdairMacIntyre, #AfterVirtue
“Deprive #children of #stories and you leave them unscripted, anxious stutterers in their #actions as in their #words.” - #AlisdairMacIntyre, #AfterVirtue
“ #Aristotle of course realized he had predecessors. Indeed he tried to write the history of previous #philosophy (in) such a way that it culminated with his own work.” - #AlisdairMacIntyre, #AfterVirtue
PhilosophicsAlasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue dismantles the Enlightenment scaffolding of modern moral discourse. Unfortunately, like Descartes before him, he tries to rebuild—first on God, now on Aristotle’s teleology. Different crutch, same collapse.
https://philosophics.blog/2025/09/17/je-pense-donc-jai-raison/
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