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Earlier this month (1-6 July), I blogged about James Buchanan and Warren Samuels’s disagreement over Miller et al. v. Schoene (the infamous red cedar rust case), a landmark legal precedent that dramatically expanded the power of State and local governments … Continue reading →

I have been highly critical of the late Alasdair MacIntyre’s 2023 essay On Having Survived the Academic Moral Philosophy of the 20th Century. (See here, here, here, and here.) Today, however, I was going to conclude my review of his … Continue reading →

To my colleagues and friends in France, Bonne Fete Nationale! I will conclude my recap of the late Alasdair MacIntyre’s 2023 essay On Having Survived the Academic Moral Philosophy of the 20th Century in my next post. In the meantime, here … Continue reading →

I will begin wrapping up my review of the late Alasdair MacIntyre’s 2023 essay On Having Survived the Academic Moral Philosophy of the 20th Century with three closing thoughts. To begin, my first observation is that the natural law approach … Continue reading →

This week, we have been revisiting the late Alasdair MacIntyre’s 2023 essay On Having Survived the Academic Moral Philosophy of the 20th Century. To recap, although I agree with MacIntyre’s diagnosis of philosophy (see here), his proposed remedy or scholarly … Continue reading →

Yesterday, I accused the late Alasdair MacIntyre of committing the natural law fallacy in his 2023 essay On Having Survived the Academic Moral Philosophy of the 20th Century. To the point: he identifies a wide range of basic “goods” that … Continue reading →

In my previous post, I began my review of the late Alasdair MacIntyre’s 2023 essay On Having Survived the Academic Moral Philosophy of the 20th Century by noting “the pervasiveness of disagreement”, not just among moral philosophers as MacIntyre does, … Continue reading →

At the end of my previous post highlighting my summer readings, I singled out the late Alasdair MacIntyre’s stinging critique of academic moral philosophy in his 2023 essay On Having Survived the Academic Moral Philosophy of the 20th Century. Most … Continue reading →

In addition to the above works, I also want to single out an essay by the late Alasdair MacIntyre, On Having Survived the Academic Moral Philosophy of the 20th Century, that I had read soon after the death of the … Continue reading →

Preview: I will revisit the late Alasdair MacIntyre’s stinging critique of academic philosophers, “On Having Survived the Academic Moral Philosophy of the 20th Century,” in the next day or two; in the meantime, below is one of my favorite flamencos … Continue reading →