I've shared my thoughts on Alasdair MacIntyre before, but a follower asked me to comment on a Philosophize This! segment on a couple of books he published after After Virtue, and so I did.

https://philosophics.blog/2026/04/15/rival-moral-approaches-of-the-modern-world-alasdair-macintyre/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

I share a link to the video content as well as a NotebookLM podcast summary.

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Plan Expressivism: A Non-cognitivist Metaethical Theory

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Some critiques of horizontality/non-hierarchy are basically: "horizontality/non-hierarchy+ABC bad things or minus XYZ good things = some less than good/effective thing." But that's an issue of the absence of XYZ good things / the presence of ABC bad things-- not horizontality

The same could be said of many critiques of direct democracy (direct collective decision making). Direct democracy+ABC bad things or minus XYZ good things is unsurprisingly not as ethical/effective as Direct democracy + XYZ good things and minus ABC bad things.

It is when there is a gestalt of multiple liberatory processes/practices/goals that various necessary but insufficient features for liberatory organizing can meaningfully thrive and mutually qualify each other.

https://usufructcollective.wordpress.com/2023/07/18/gestalt-of-the-good-2023-remix/

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Gestalt of the Good (2023 Remix)

What is good for volitional beings: What is good for a volitional being is the flourishing of such a being and what enables a being to flourish– and what is good for some group of volitional …

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DnB Mix Preshow to: Aristotelian Virtue Ethics - Fresh AiR SciPhi - Mixed up Philosophy and Science: Answers In Reason

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU3nyANqzZs

DnB mix before the show, separated for the folks that just want the music

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DnB Mix Preshow to: Aristotelian Virtue Ethics - Fresh AiR SciPhi - Mixed up Philosophy and Science

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Emotivism - Types of Moral Non-cognitivism

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Issues With "More Moral" Part 3. In this short we address (briefly) atheists not being able to ground an objective standard. Moral Language is confusing at times, with so many different takes and various levels of understanding, people talk past each other all the time. In this series of shorts I'll be addressing some tweets that started with a tweet from the thinking atheist about being more moral than the society you grew up in. #morality #moralityshorts #ethics #ethicsandmorality #morals #metaethics #moralcognativism #moralnoncognstivism #ethicaltheory #shorts #shortshorts #moralrealism #moralsubjectivism #normativeethics

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Joe from Answers in Reason on TikTok

Issues With "More Moral" Part 2. In part 2 I clarify what I mean by a subjectivist or noncognitivist etc saying "more moral" isn't really a statement with any power. Moral Language is confusing at times, with so many different takes and various levels of understanding, people talk past each other all the time. In this series of shorts I'll be addressing some tweets that started with a tweet from the thinking atheist about being more moral than the society you grew up in. #morality #moralityshorts #ethics #ethicsandmorality #morals #metaethics #moralcognativism #moralnoncognstivism #ethicaltheory #shorts #shortshorts #moralrealism #moralsubjectivism #normativeethics

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Joe from Answers in Reason on TikTok

Issues With "More Moral" Part 1. Moral Language is confusing at times, with so many different takes and various levels of understanding, people talk past each other all the time. In this series of shorts I'll be addressing some tweets that started with a tweet from the thinking atheist about being more moral than the society you grew up in. #morality #moralityshorts #ethics #ethicsandmorality #morals #metaethics #moralcognativism #moralnoncognstivism #ethicaltheory #shorts #shortshorts #moralrealism #moralsubjectivism #normativeethics

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Issues With "More Moral" Part 4. by AnswersInReasonhttps://www.tiktok.com/@answersinreason/video/7260907356693843226#morality #moralityshorts #ethics #ethicsandmorality #morals #metaethics #moralcognativism #moralnoncognstivism #ethicaltheory #shorts #shortshorts #moralrealism #DivineCommandTheory #DCT #moralsubjectivism #normativeethics
Replying to @gd8310 Response to Issues With "More Moral" - Relativism. by AnswersInReasonhttps://www.tiktok.com/@answersinreason/video/7261169484017257754#morality #ethics #ethicsandmorality #morals #metaethics #moralcognativism #moralrelativism #moralnoncognstivism #ethicaltheory #normativeethics