Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Jan 5
My #best reads list for 2025 was, well, hopelessly #eclectic: #CharlesTaylor, #ManueldeLanda, #VaclavSmil, #PhilipKDick, #IrisMurdoch, #AlisdairMacIntyre, #JamesCScott, #HPLovecraft, etc #books #BookSky #BestReads #fiction #nonfiction #reading doncurren.blogspot.com/2026/01/five...

Five Most Notable Books I Read...
Five Most Notable Books I Read in 2025

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Dec 3
Many people - including the philosopher #AlisdairMacIntyre - believe the #totalitarian regime depicted in 1984 would last forever. There's a big chunk of textual evidence that #GeorgeOrwell didn't see it that way. doncurren.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-... #NineteenEightyFour #books #BookSky

The Decline and Fall of Big Br...
The Decline and Fall of Big Brother: How Orwell Hinted at Tyranny’s Inevitable End

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Nov 27
The philosopher #AlisdairMacIntyre believes #GeorgeOrwell depicted the Party’s regime in #1984 as lasting forever. #MargaretAtwood and I disagree. I explain why in my #blog post The Decline and Fall of Big Brother. doncurren.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-... #books #BookSky #totalitarianism #Newspeak

The Decline and Fall of Big Br...
The Decline and Fall of Big Brother: How Orwell Hinted at Tyranny’s Inevitable End

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Nov 26
“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
Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Nov 25
“A #quest is always an #education both as to what is sought and in #self-knowledge.” - #AlisdairMacIntyre, #AfterVirtue
Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Nov 25
“Deprive #children of #stories and you leave them unscripted, anxious stutterers in their #actions as in their #words.” - #AlisdairMacIntyre, #AfterVirtue
Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Nov 23
“It is most often to others that we owe our #survival, let alone our #flourishing” - #AlisdairMacIntyre
Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Nov 23
“ #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
Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Nov 12
“ #Twentieth-century social life turns out in key part to be the concrete and dramatic re-enactment of #eighteenth-century #philosophy” - #AlisdairMacIntyre, After Virtue
Dale FavierDec 4, 2022

Reading Alisdair MacIntyre with great relief: and realizing how tamely all my life I have accepted historical incompetence in philosophers, and philosophical incompetence in historians. We don't actually have to put up with it!

#AlisdairMacIntyre #Philosophy #History