#after virtue

[philosophybitmaps]

[thatscarletflycatcher]

How could I have forgotten that Alasdair MacIntyre dedicates 4+ pages of After Virtue to Jane Austen, like

In the historical tradition of virtues, let us talk of Homer, Aristotle, the New Testament, Aquinas, Jane Austen... and Benjamin Franklin (derogatory)

[philosophybits]

To have understood the polymorphous character of pleasure and happiness is of course to have rendered those concepts useless for utilitarian purposes; if the prospect of his or her own future pleasure or happiness cannot for reasons which I have suggested provide criteria for solving the problems of action in the case of each individual, it follows that the notion of the greatest happiness of the greatest number is a notion without any clear content at all. It is indeed a pseudo-concept available for a variety of ideological uses, but no more than that.

Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue

[eternal-echoes]

“For according to that [classical] tradition to be a man is to fill a set of roles each of which has its own point and purpose: member of a family, citizen, soldier, philosopher, servant of God.”

 - Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue

[mjgkirke]

Endgame?

This is the way the world ends   Not with a bang but a whimper. Unless… Unless what? The problem is, we cannot give a coherent answer to that question. The truth is we seem not to know even how to begin to answer that question. That is, the agencies which try to govern our destinies on this planet, our governments, our academics, our experts, do not know, have not got the slightest idea of what…

[fourdramas]

“The modern radical is as confident in the moral expression of his stances and consequently in the assertive uses of the rhetoric of morality as any conservative has ever been. Whatever else he demounces in our culture he is certain that it still possesses the moral resources which requires in order to denounce it. Everything else may be, in his eyes, in disorder; but the language of morality is in order, just as it is.”

-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue

[turtleblogatlast]

Every day I’m haunted by the fact the boys happily swim in sewer water

Even if it’s filtered somehow there’s no way it’s not still nasty 😭 Bet they can defeat any of their villains just by accidentally giving them diseases I swear

[nyoomzz]

whenever i had to get into that stupid elevator and just awkwardly stare at the screen i remind myself that they probably had it worse

[ghost-bxrd]

Prompt:

Bruce is Jason’s biological father.

He finds out about it during the autopsy after Ethiopia.

[blessyouhawkeye]

don't think sport will ever give me a bigger rush of euphoria than watching the men's free program at the 2018 winter olympics and seeing the look on yuzuru hanyu's face as he entered the step sequence of his program and realized he just won his second consecutive olympic gold medal. nothing will ever compete with that.

[lady-adventuress]

Here's an @eah-exchange gift for @mythgirlimagines ! Dexter has two hands (and two left feet).

[divine--intervention]

NEW OC, THIS IS ERIAN

[dragonymango]

half a person between the two of us

[kenobihater]

of all the star wars movies, which of them do y'all 1) enjoy the most 2) consider the best quality and 3) think you've rewatched the most. add your answers in the reblogs or replies, i'm genuinely curious how much of an overlap there is within everyone's three answers. mine don't overlap at all! they're revenge of the sith, empire strikes back, and the force awakens :^)

[mjgkirke]

Endgame?

This is the way the world ends   Not with a bang but a whimper. Unless… Unless what? The problem is, we cannot give a coherent answer to that question. The truth is we seem not to know even how to begin to answer that question. That is, the agencies which try to govern our destinies on this planet, our governments, our academics, our experts, do not know, have not got the slightest idea of what…

[rottentiger-art]

Not Polin breaking every single rule here 💀