Virtue, EIIR and Tolkien

Two very different events this past month have led me to reflect on the continuing relevance of moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre’s prophetic work After Virtue (Duckworth, 1981).

Culture Watch James Paul

MacIntyre explains how the West has moved from a culture based around the practice of virtues, to one in which moral judgments are merely expressions of personal feelings and attitudes, often used to produce similar feelings in others. Nowhere has this change been more demonstrated than in the death of her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.