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Category: Alasdair MacIntyre

Dignity and Distance

Joseph R. Wood: Whether the view of human dignity is philosophical or poetic, we must see others as God sees us: at a distance, and up close.

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It’s time for a conversation about justice, top Catholic scholar says

Famed ethicist Alasdair MacIntyre called upon academia and other Catholics and intellectuals, to invest in the “expensive conversation” about justice, and to sharpen their understanding of what constitutes human dignity. MacIntyre, whose teaching career spans 70 years and includes some of the most important books on virtue ethics such as “After Virtue” and “Dependent Rational

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Diagnosing the Modern Self – and the Cure

Casey Chalk reviews the new book by Protestant Carl R. Trueman. It argues for “natural law and a high view of the physical body.”

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Understanding and surviving a culture dominated by expressive individualism

Carl R. Trueman (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is professor of biblical and religious studies at Grove City College. A church historian and prolific Evangelical author (he is a member of The Orthodox Presbyterian Church), Trueman […]

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Loud Live the Dogma

“The world has heard enough of the so-called ‘rights of man.’ Let it hear something of the rights of God.” — Pope Leo XIII Like all the philosophers of the Enlightenment, John Locke believed that morality could be justified on purely rational grounds. Like all the philosophers of the Enlightenment, he was also wary of […]

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