Re: Alastair MacIntyre died

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)]

 > From: Brian <http://www.cs..edu/~b>
 > Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2025 22:03:26 -0700
 >
 > He's the philosopher who converted me to Aristotelian (virtue) ethics,
 > with his book After Virtue, which I studied as a  grad student.
 > Aristotle argued that ethics isn't about answering trick questions about
 > trolley tracks, etc., but rather about developing good habits (the
 > virtues) over the course of a lifetime.  (If you were really faced with
 > one of those trick question situations, you wouldn't have time to conduct
 > a philosophy seminar; you'd just act on instinct, and so living the good
 > life entails developing good instincts.)

Coincidentally, I was reading this just yesterday:

 https://existentialcomics.com/comic/599