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Sadler's Lectures

Alasdair MacIntyre - How To Appear Virtuous Without Being So - Inadequate Shared Public Morality

Jan 8, 2024
Alasdair MacIntyre, 20th and 21st century philosopher and moral theorist discusses the inadequacy of shared public morality and virtues. He highlights the lack of coherent understanding of virtues and the reliance on superficial moral rhetoric. The podcast explores moral dilemmas in military and commercial scenarios, emphasizing the limitations of indeterminate conceptions of virtue.
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  • In our late modern culture, we lack a substantive and systematic shared public morality, relying instead on a superficial moral rhetoric that lacks a clear understanding or agreement on the meanings of virtues.
  • The inadequacy of a shared public morality hinders moral education and leaves individuals morally resourceless in navigating complex situations, indicating the need for a substantive account of virtues to provide moral guidance.

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The Inadequacy of Shared Public Morality

The podcast discusses the inadequacy of a shared public morality, highlighting how we lack a systematic and coherent account of virtues. Instead of a shared public morality, we have a shared moral rhetoric, which is a superficial vocabulary that lacks a clear understanding or agreement on the meanings of virtues. This lack of agreement hinders moral education and leaves us morally resourceless in navigating complex situations.

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