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Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue (8 week course)
Introduction To This Course
How This Class Works
Topics and Scope For Our Class
Your Instructor For The Class
Our Schedule for Class Sessions
(FAQ) Frequently Asked Questions
Discussion Forum - Introduce Yourself and Have Conversations
Our Texts For The Class
Our Main Text For The Course: After Virtue
Virtue Ethics (Encyclopedia Entry)
The Claims Of After Virtue
Hegel on Faces And Skulls
A.A. Long - Greek Ethics After MacIntyre And The Stoic Community Of Reason
Plain Persons And Moral Philosophy: Rules, Virtues, and Goods
How To Seem Virtuous Without Being So
Is Patriotism A Virtue?
An Interview With Alasdair MacIntyre
A Rejoinder to My Critics, Especially Solomon
After Virtue and Marxism: A Response To Wartofsky
Recordings Of Class Sessions (posted after each session finishes)
About The Class Recordings
Class Session 1 recording
Class Session 2 recording
Class Session 3 recording
Class Session 4 recording
Class Session 5 recording
Class Session 6 Recording
Week 1 - The Present-Day Situation
Overview Of Week 1: What We Will Be Reading, Discussing, and Learning
Link For Week 1 Online (Zoom) Session - 9:00 AM Central Time
Handout - Three Examples of Seemingly Insoluble Conflicts
Handout - Emotivism As A Moral Theory
Handout - Emotivist Culture and Characters
Week 1 Discussion Forum
Week 2 - The Enlightenment Project
Overview Of Week 2: What We Will Be Reading, Discussing, and Learning
Link For Week 2 Online (Zoom) Session - 9:00 AM Central Time
Handout - Jeremy Bentham's Utilitarian Moral Theory
Handout - John Stuart Mill's Utilitarian Moral Theory
Handout - Immanuel Kant's Deontological Moral Theory
Handout - W.D. Ross' Deontological Moral Theory
Week 2 Discussion Forum
Week 3 - The Limits Of The Social Sciences
Overview Of Week 3: What We Will Be Reading, Discussing, and Learning
Link For Week 3 Online (Zoom) Session - 9:00 AM Central Time
Handout - Four Interesting Generalizations Advanced By Social Scientists
Handout -Sources Of Systematic Unpredictability in After Virtue
Week 3 Discussion Forum
Week 4 - A Choice, Homeric Society, and Plato
Overview Of Week 4: What We Will Be Reading, Discussing, and Learning
Link For Week 4 Online (Zoom) Session - 9:00 AM Central Time
Handout - Plato On Virtues In The City In The Republic book 4
Handout - Plato On Virtues In The Republic book 4
Week 4 Discussion Forum
Week 5 - Aristotle and the Middle Ages
Overview Of Week 5: What We Will Be Reading, Discussing, and Learning
Link For Week 5 Online (Zoom) Session - 9:00 AM Central Time
Handout - Aristotle On Virtue And Vice
Handout - The List of Aristotelian Virtues
Week 5 Discussion Forum
Handout - Cicero On The Four Characters In On Duties Book 1
Week 6 - Virtues, Tradition, Institution
Overview Of Week 6: What We Will Be Reading, Discussing, and Learning
Link For Week 6 Online (Zoom) Session - 9:00 AM Central Time
Week 6 Discussion Forum
Handout - Five Representative Perspectives On The Virtues
Handout - Practices And Virtues In After Virtue Chapter 14
Week 7 - From The Virtues To After Virtue
Overview Of Week 7: What We Will Be Reading, Discussing, and Learning
Link For Week 7 Online (Zoom) Session - 9:00 AM Central Time
Week 7 Discussion Forum
Week 8 - Considerations and Criticisms of After Virtue
Overview Of Week 8: What We Will Be Reading, Discussing, and Learning
Link For Week 8 Online (Zoom) Session - 9:00 AM Central Time
Week 8 Discussion Forum
Supplementary Texts
Leslie Stevenson - "The Emotive Meaning of Ethical Terms"
Is Patriotism A Virtue?
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