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I said it might be a while, and it was. Tonight we're starting a new book: 
Remember how I constantly told you to read Alasdair MacIntyre? Well, I'm not leaving it to chance. This will be your introduction.
(Afterwards, we can maybe move on to After Virtue proper, but we'll see.)
A Short History of Ethics: Chapter 1-2
A Short History of Ethics: Chapter 1-2
Note: The 2e preface details things in the book that MacIntyre evolved on. (particularly the section on ✝️) I'll show those when relevant.
CHAPTER 1
THE PHILOSOPHICAL POINT OF THE HISTORY OF ETHICS
THE PHILOSOPHICAL POINT OF THE HISTORY OF ETHICS
This is the most important thing you're going to learn from MacIntyre.
(also, forgive my computer for not rendering Greek very well)
(also, forgive my computer for not rendering Greek very well)
Works come from traditions which are crucial to understanding them. Moderns assume you can add random people to a canon because why not? 
Here's where MacIntyre reveals the point of the book and, in hindsight, his entire career: a one-man war on liberalism's autism. 
That was short wasn't it? That's why I'm doing two of them
CHAPTER 2
THE PREPHILOSOPHICAL HISTORY OF “GOOD” AND THE TRANSITION TO PHILOSOPHY
CHAPTER 2
THE PREPHILOSOPHICAL HISTORY OF “GOOD” AND THE TRANSITION TO PHILOSOPHY
This is something MacIntyre revisits in After Virtue, and something that benefits from an understanding of Jouvenel's model of social change 
I was talking earlier today about why employment is preferable to UBI, all things equal. I said "socialization," which basically meant this. 
How will Hume respecters ever recover from this? 🤣 
The day I take "trad" neopagans seriously is the day they adopt this #HomericMindset. 
Again, I apologize for computer being unable to Greek. If anyone knows how to fix this, please tell me. I think you can still get the point. 
Remember earlier about how morality is embodied socially? Observe the disintegration of Greek social morality. Familiar, no? 
I imagine quoting this in a political debate could probably get me banned for hate speech. Diversity breeds anomie and literal sophistry 
Isn't it funny how this is standard democratic behavior? It's almost like republicanism destroys coherence in ethical systems, or something. 
Social and institutional continuity is vital to ethics. This is why revolutions are terrible ideas 99% of the time. 
We finish the chapter with MacIntyre absolutely savaging autistic positivism, which was still a thing back in the 60s when he wrote this. 
We leave on Greece in a state of ethical dysfunction. A group called the "sophists" tries to solve this. Next time, we'll see how that went! 
PS: I installed 🇬🇷 language packs for my pdf reader and my OS, but it still doesn't render all characters. Any help would be appreciated.
