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Emptiness and Its Consequences: MacIntyre on "Emotivism" (5)

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  • Oct 20, 2019
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In Chapters 2 and 3 of MacIntyre's After Virtue, we learn what "emotivism" is and why MacIntyre dislikes it. In particular, he identifies emotivism as the primary way people now thi... Show More

In Chapters 2 and 3 of MacIntyre's After Virtue, we learn what "emotivism" is and why MacIntyre dislikes it. In particular, he identifies emotivism as the primary way people now think about moral arguments, and he blames emotivism for our inability to reach any moral agreement. Even more interestingly, he sees in the modern bureacratic/managerial organization an expression of emotivism that leads to a lack of agency and responsibility. This is because the emotivist "self" is basically empty--moving from feeling to feeling but with no real grounding--and this emptiness is then filled by stronger forces in society--political and commercial. MacIntyre argues that in a traditional society the self is filled by pre-ordained social roles--but is this any better? The latter is a question we will ask as we move on into MacIntyre's defense of Aristotelian virtue ethics.

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Jason Scott Montoya @JasonSMontoya · Sep 9, 2023
  • Curated in What’s Wrong With Society? What’s Wrong With Us? What’s Wrong With Me?
What's Wrong With Society? Part 5C. Assume Positions! MacIntyre continues, placing this insight into this set of roles that came before it. “[we have] notable characters in the cultural dramas of modernity: that of the therapist, who has in the last twenty years become bemused by biochemical discoveries; that of the corporate manager, who is now mouthing formulas that she or he learned in a course in business ethics, while still trying to justify her or his pretensions to expertise; and that of the aesthete, who is presently emerging from a devotion to conceptual art. So the conservative moralist has become one more stock character in the scripted conversations of the ruling elites of advanced modernity. But those elites never have the last word.” We became gears in the machine. We think we’re fighting against the machine, but we’re actually keeping it going. Learn more about these roles from Alasdair MacIntyre’s book, After Virtue, in the this recap video >>
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