But can the solution to our malaise really lie in the resurrection of a form of ethics first outlined by Aristotle and later integrated into Christianity by Thomas Aquinas?įor MacIntyre, the answer is yes. In making such claims the book has proved to be prescient: the faltering hegemony of liberalism and recurrent surges of anti-elite sentiment across the West testify to that. That is a crude albeit faithful summary of Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue, first published in 1981. And navigating a way out of our current societal malaise requires us to resurrect an older form of morality. The limited expertise of our governing elites cannot justify the vast power they claim. The Enlightenment project for morality has failed.
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