I am sorry for the drought in posts: I am working on the Mansfield Park essay. It is taking longer than I anticipated, and I find it hard to break away from this in the middle, but it is going well. As it will take another day or so I will force myself to take that break.
According to his analysis a terrible wrong turning was taken at the Enlightenment and we live in an intellectual culture that is systematically irrational: I agree.
He seems to have found Jane Austen’s writing as significant and insightful in coming to his conclusions, though not sufficiently for it to get mentioned in the summaries of his philosophy: I want to find out more.
Macintyre doesn’t seem to see any solution inside our intellectual culture, but only in trying to preserve the wisdom of earlier rational times for when they are needed. I vehemently disagree on this and regard it as unhelpful.
Mansfield Park Update
I am sorry for the drought in posts: I am working on the Mansfield Park essay. It is taking longer than I anticipated, and I find it hard to break away from this in the middle, but it is going well. As it will take another day or so I will force myself to take that break.
Upcoming: Alasdair Macintyre
I have decided that I need to address Alasdair Macintyre’s philosophy for three reasons.
The 2007 edition of Macintyre’s After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory is heading towards me. I will read it after I have posted the Mansfield Park essay and write it up here.