Philosophy, Haikus, and Academia

The main task of JUST FYI POD: IDEAS' second season is to discuss "Our Ten Favorite Works of Philosophy." On today's episode, my cohost Clark Elliston and I explore two recent philosophical texts -- one that is already considered a classic in the field, another that presents a penetrating overview some of philosophy's greatest thinkers. The former is Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory (1981), which, as I will explain, has had a massive influence on the recovery of Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas in the tradition of virtue ethics. Next Clark will turn to Stephen Mulhall's Philosophical Myths of the Fall (2007), which probes the ethico-religious dimension in the thinking of Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

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