Beginning this Monday, January 19, the Phi Sigma Tau Philosophy Honor Society will begin a reading group for Alasdair
ManIntyre's monumental work on ethics,
After Virtue. The discussion will begin at 6:30 p.m. at a location yet to be announced. This is a Philosophy Club event open to anyone who is interested regardless of major. Come with an inquisitive mind. Please email Nancy Frame at
neframe@liberty.edu if you plan on joining us. We will only be reading the first three chapters of the text for this meeting, and will continue to meet again every two weeks until we finish the work. The book can be found easily online through both Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
From the back cover of the third edition: "When
After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially controversial critique of contemporary moral philosophy.
Newsweek called it 'a stunning new study of ethics by one of the foremost moral philosophers in the English-speaking world.'
"In this classic work, Alasdair
ManIntyre examines the historical and conceptual roots of the idea of virtue, diagnoses the reasons for its absence in personal and public life, and offers a tentative proposal for its recovery. While the individual chapters are
wideranging, once pieced together they compromise a penetrating and focused argument about the price of modernity.
"Alasdair
ManIntyre is research professor of philosophy at the University of
Notre Dame. He is the author of numerous books, including
Whose Justice? Which Rationality? (
Notre Dame Press, 1988) and
Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopedia, Genealogy, and Tradition (
Notre Dame Press, 1990)."
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Phi Sigma Tau Liberty University Zeta chapter is pleased to announce its first lecture event of the spring semester. Dr. David Baggett will be giving a presentation entitled "If God Weren't Good: A Lecture In Ethics" on February 12 at 7:00 p.m. in RH 104. This event is a continuation of the Honor Society's Faculty Lecture Series and is one that you will not want to miss. As a reminder, Phi Sigma Tau's lecture events are open to the entire student body as well as the general public, and coffee will be present. Be sure to mark your calendars for this important event as Dr. Baggett lectures on a topic often taken for granted in modern, mainline Christian thought. Dr. Baggett's credentials and information can be accessed here.
