We will be meeting once a month during the academic year to discuss Alasdair MacIntyre's 'After Virtue' in a roundtable format. All are welcome regardless of faith or field of expertise.
'After Virtue' has taken its own place in the cultural vocabulary of many scholars, philosophers and thinking people. This is because MacIntyre probes Western philosophy and history to discern the reasons for what he diagnoses as current "intellectual disorder" --- Western culture's inability to agree and act upon basic premises of what life means and what constitutes morality.
For the most canonical (and brief) discussion of MacIntyre's work, see the entry in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy: http://www.rep.routledge.com/article/R045. Other resources are provided at the link below.
The first meeting, discussing Chapters 1-3, will be on the 9th of October. Details of subsequent meetings TBA. If you have questions and/or plan to come, please let us know.
Organisers: Martha Kelly (Slavic Languages and Literature, I-HUM), Connie Lau (Musicology), Charis Quay (Physics).