MacIntyre Reading Group

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)."

DLM