Virtue and Meaning: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective

A symposium on my book Virtue and Meaning: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective (@CambridgeUP @CambUP_PHILNYUK ) is now out with American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly: https://t.co/EDEAYoL7ip

— David McPherson (@davidlmcpherson) May 3, 2021

Cambridge University Press

MacIntyre's After Virtue

I’m really loving this podcast episode about MacIntyre’s After Virtue. They go into some academic sociology about whether and why MacIntyre is a bit marginalized... And also go through the basic points of the book https://t.co/6y1jYqC7ey pic.twitter.com/P9qvqCuY4r

— Meekaale Brockman (@meekaale) April 17, 2021

Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P. on the Human Good

Fr. White's recent lecture for the Thomistic Institute at UT Austin titled "Aquinas on the Final Purpose of Human Existence and Human Prudence" is now available on our podcast.

Spotify—https://t.co/Xk7AuDGPvM

— Thomistic Institute (@ThomisticInst) February 13, 2021

Finality... and Natural Inclinations

The question of finality in nature is key to an understanding of natural law. Hence a moral philosopher or moral theologian must study natural philosophy. pic.twitter.com/UHueXblZlO

— Pater Edmund (@sancrucensis) October 27, 2020

John O'Callaghan on Personhood

A great lecture from Notre Dame Prof. John O'Callaghan: "Are There Failed Persons? Are You One of Them?"
Particularly good on faulty modern conceptions of personhood and how they infect modern bioethics.https://t.co/AYMUaxHrpq @ThomisticInst

— Ryan T. Anderson (@RyanTAnd) September 1, 2020

Anscombe, "Modern Moral Philosophy"

Now available free online: Anscombe’s classic “Modern Moral Philosophy,” featuring such zingers as…https://t.co/sGRdApeVrk pic.twitter.com/3MIOXqtdOr

— Kieran Setiya (@KieranSetiya) May 28, 2020

Timothy Patitsas: Beauty, Complexity and Ethics

MacIntyre and Lear

Elizabeth Anscombe on Living the Truth

From 2017: Stephen Brock - "Aquinas and the Life of the Mind"

Is Personalism Still in Vogue?

Church Life: The Personalist Awakening in 20th Century Catholic Moral Thought written by Jay Martin

Gratitude

Rabbi B: "The Hebrew word for gratitude is 'hakaras hatov' which, when roughly translated, means 'recognizing the good.' Recognizing the good that someone does for us requires humility, a trait which doesn't come easy to the Gamma. Humility and gratitude do not come easy when you're a secret king who is convinced that he is not only superior to everyone else and misunderstood, he is also someone who people underestimate to their peril."

Teaching the Nicomachean Ethics

The text is still used by some philosophy departments of the "new, small, Catholic liberal arts colleges" -- however the ethics course is usually co-ed. Is this use of the Nicomachean Ethics, or the teaching of ethics in general, in a "gender-neutral" way appropriate, if we admit the existence of sex differences? It should be clear from the text itself that it is addressed to young men (of a certain educational background), and not to young women. Is the text useful for women who have a similar background? Perhaps some parts, like the discussion of happiness and friendship. But the discussion of the virtues may not be, as those virtues would be different for men and women in so far as their general virtue is also different.

As the teaching of ethics is part of moral education, and not just a component of a "liberal education" (which in turn must be judged in accordance with moral standards and requirements), ethics above all should not be taught to a mixed-sex class. What would be required for a proper ethics course for women, besides acknowledging the existence of sex differences? More on that another time.

Eastern Christian Books: Alasdair MacIntyre on Ethics Amidst the Conflicts of Modernity

Eastern Christian Books: Alasdair MacIntyre on Ethics Amidst the Conflicts of Modernity

Michael Gorman Podcast

Howard Nusbaum and Candace Vogler

The Intention

If the Intention is Unclean.

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Kaczor Reviews Tollfsen's Lying and Christian Ethics

Is Lying Ever Justified? (via Mirror of Justice)

One thing a discussion of the virtues within moral theology or moral philosophy can easily incorporate is sex differences, which could easily be ignored if the focus was solely on law or the morality of human acts.

Dr. Christopher Tollefsen: Morality in God