In the piece I started yesterday, I promised to talk about how and why a contemporary virtue ethicist and a classic virtue ethicist distinguish different types of moral failure from each other. Discussing the contemporary, Alasdair MacIntyre, I placed more focus on the why — the reasons we ought to be concerned not only whether we've done wrong, but to what degree, for what reasons — and what we learn about ourselves in the process, including how — like a bus that has left the road for...
Published on November 10, 2011 21:19