Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue ch14 | I How The Account Is Aristotelian | Philosophy Core Concepts

This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.

This Core Concept video focuses on Alasdair MacIntyre's book After Virtue, specifically on his discussion about the extent and ways in which his account is an "Aristotelian" one.

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You're spoiling us with all this content! Thanks :)

[marcsmit]

After reading through some of MacIntyre's works recently along with watching through your videos, I must confess that I have underestimated him. I'm looking forward to learning more from him. Thank you for this series!

[johnhampton]

Virtue ethics thinks that having concepts of virtue and the attempts to uphold them are the same thing as being virtuous. In actuality, virtue could have only ever been an embodied virtue. However, the embodied virtue is nothing more than a public work, which fails to become moral or virtuous because it fails in the idea of becoming moral by being merely presteriological.


It is a public work, and can be no more than that.