MacIntyre's book sits on my shelf, still unread. But I do hope to get to in the next few months (though, as ever, I buy books faster than I can read them...)
Do you know if MacIntyre discussed the impact of voluntarism on the collapse of a robust ethics? I've been reading lately on the development and impact of voluntarism and nominalism in theology, and the way those developments were then crucial for the development of modern political and anthropological ideas. It seems to me that a similar impact on moral and ethical reasoning, especially the voluntarism impulse to focus on freedom as an unfettered (some might say even arbitrary) exercise of the will. But the history of ethics is not my wheelhouse; I'd be curious as to your thoughts.
Super helpful! Thanks for writing it. Appreciate the care put into not overstating a case while letting it speak to a very important situation.
Wonderful reflections on AV in our present context!
Thanks, Dan.
This post gave me the chills. We are talking completely different languages in the public arena. This is extremely insightful.
MacIntyre's book sits on my shelf, still unread. But I do hope to get to in the next few months (though, as ever, I buy books faster than I can read them...)
Do you know if MacIntyre discussed the impact of voluntarism on the collapse of a robust ethics? I've been reading lately on the development and impact of voluntarism and nominalism in theology, and the way those developments were then crucial for the development of modern political and anthropological ideas. It seems to me that a similar impact on moral and ethical reasoning, especially the voluntarism impulse to focus on freedom as an unfettered (some might say even arbitrary) exercise of the will. But the history of ethics is not my wheelhouse; I'd be curious as to your thoughts.