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

Stealing a Page from Feminist Care Ethics?

Pope Francis said the core principles of the Catholic Church’s social doctrine are key to ushering in a “culture of care” where violent conflicts end and the poor and needy are prioritized.https://t.co/bfWSFyTjgW

— Crux (@Crux) December 17, 2020

Protestants and Natural Law Theory

The rejection of natural law theory is one of the most unnecessary and tragic moves in Protestant ethics over the last seventy-five years. The more I teach from the perspective of biblical natural law, the more I see students' understanding of God's Word and world come alive.

— Andrew T. Walker (@andrewtwalk) December 2, 2020

Meanwhile... universalism and particularism and "rights talk."

The myth of natural morality https://t.co/uH8b0EbIGJ

— john milbank (@johnmilbank3) December 2, 2020

The shift from duties to individual rights defines the decline of the west. https://t.co/Qa5CRMzDdp

— Patrick Deneen (@PatrickDeneen) November 30, 2020

Philip Brickman and the Pursuit of Happiness

I have wanted to tell this story for 14 years. Today, I finally did. https://t.co/nAomzzXGY0

— Jennifer Senior (@JenSeniorNY) November 24, 2020

A Mind at Peace: Reclaiming an Ordered Soul in the Age of Distraction

Perfect Advent reading.

Reclaim an ordered soul and practice interior peace.

I’ll give away three copies on Friday.

Retweet or comment to enter the drawing. pic.twitter.com/NWaSVOp2hc

— Josh Hochschild (@JoshHochschild) November 24, 2020

Sophia Institute Press

Interview with Dr. Timothy Patitsas

St. Nicholas Press

More:
Dean of Hellenic College Timothy Patitsas Publishes Book on the Ethics of Beauty

Hope in Source 11: City as Liturgy

The Ethics of Beauty - Christian Rights and Freedom Institute

James Franklin on Mathematics

Ed Feser: Franklin on Aristotelian realism and mathematics

His website.

Palgrave Macmillan: An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics: Mathematics as the Science of Quantity and Structure

Timothy Patitsas: Beauty, Complexity and Ethics

Action Versus Contemplation: Why An Ancient Debate Still Matters

Blakey Vermeule (Stanford University), Jennifer Summit (San Francisco State University), Lisa Ruddick (University of Chicago), and Fr. Peter Funk, OSB (Monastery of the Holy Cross), on Vermeule and Summit's book Action Versus Contemplation: Why An Ancient Debate Still Matters (University of Chicago Press, 2018)

Living The Good Life: A Beginner's Thomistic Ethics

Keunwoo Kwon Reviews Justice as a Virtue

 Reading Religion

While this book is an excellent work crafted by a first-rate scholar, this reader has a minor quibble about an omission rather than a commission. In this volume Porter does not address the issue of “burdened virtue” raised by Lisa Tessman in her 2005 Burdened Virtues (Oxford University Press). Since Porter discusses with nuance the complicated relationship between justice and eudaemonia in chapter 5, it is a little bit of a surprise that Tessman’s well-noted challenge to the Aristotelian moral tradition is entirely absent in this chapter. To what extent would Aquinas acknowledge the contingent connection between virtue and flourishing? Is it legitimate to see the virtue of justice as a mean in an Aristotelian sense, given that there seems to be no mean for an intense sensitivity to others’ suffering in this tragic world? Would Aquinas’s emphasis on supernatural grace and his eschatology based upon the Exitus-Reditus framework somehow help resolve this tension? These questions deserve a serious response from Porter, especially when her work implicitly touches upon the issues treated with care by Tessman.

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

The Ethics of Authenticity

Inescapable Horizons by Mark C. Henrie

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.

Dr. Marie George's Lecture at TAC

Dr. Marie George: “Aquinas on God’s Love of Material Creatures as the Basis of Environmental Ethics”

The Metaphysics of Gender: A Thomistic Approach

Howard Nusbaum and Candace Vogler

Islam and the Decalogue

The Catholic Thing: Islam and the Decalogue by Howard Kainz

Dr. Christopher Tollefsen: Morality in God

From Steubenville to University of Dallas

UD Announces New Constantin College Dean: Ethics Scholar Jonathan J. Sanford

Sanford is author of the recently published Before Ethics.