Overview Of Week 2: What We Will Be Reading, Discussing, and Learning

In Week 2 of our class, we will now be moving into the narrative that MacIntyre outlines for how we wound up in the present situation we inhabit, which for him is tied up with what he calls the "Enlightenment project". It's failure to provide a universally accepted and shared morality after a number of different iterations places us into a new situation in late modernity.


We will be referencing the following

  • After Virtue, chapter 4: The Predecessor Culture and the Enlightenment Project Of Justifying Morality
  • After Virtue, chapter 5: Why The Enlightenment Project Of Justifying Morality Had To Fail
  • After Virtue, chapter 6: Some Consequences Of The Failure Of The Enlightenment Project

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