This second session in our 18 week online class Ancient Virtue Ethics: Three Main Traditions is a prerecorded video (which I hope you’ll find informative and useful for promoting some discussion), rather than an online session. We’ll be doing a mix of those over the entire run of the class. In the case of this weekend, I’m gearing up for the start of the Fall semester at Marquette University, where I’ve been asked to teach three class sections (a bit unusual), so I’m deep in the midst of all the behind the scenes preparatory work that requires, and can’t carve out the time for an intensive online session.
What are we up to this week? I suggested that students read a few short pieces, all by 20th-21st century interpreters of and contributors to virtue ethics: Alasdair MacIntyre, Pierre Hadot, and John Sellars. Why? Well, there’s several reasons, which might be different than some students imagine.
The goal of reading these is not to focus on these thinkers and the theories they articulate just for their own sake, as worthwhile as that might be. Interestingly, none of them would be particularly keen to have you do that, since they themselves are clearly and intensely focused on a number of earlier thinkers and works.
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