Alasdair MacIntyre, Plain Persons | Narratives Of Moral Decline | Philosophy Core Concepts

Enroll in the 8 week Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue course (starting March 7) - https://reasonio.teachable.com/p/alas... Check out my Substack - https://gregorybsadler.substack.com/ Request personal videos on Cameo - https://www.cameo.com/gregorybsadler Get The MacIntyre Reader - https://amzn.to/3KUbXVf Support my work here -   / sadler   or here https://www.buymeacoffee.com/a4quydwom Philosophy tutorials - https://reasonio.wordpress.com/tutori... Take classes with me - https://reasonio.teachable.com/ This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker. This Core Concept video focuses on Alasdair MacIntyre's essay "Plain Persons and Moral Philosophy", and discusses a generalized narrative that MacIntyre calls "the story of the decline and fall of the plain person", with four main "episodes". 1. The protagonist strives to answer the question "what is my good", but doesn't develop a temperateness needed toward less than supreme goods 2. A "radical discrepancy develops between rules needed for pursuit of the good and the multiplicity of goods 3. The discrepancy gets resolved in one of two incompatible ways. Either rules take priority or goods do. The protagonist learns that they cannot avoid taking sides 4. The protagonist discovers that the major issues at stake cannot be rationally resolved MacIntyre also maintains that this is not just a story of individuals but of our moral culture from the 16th-20th centuries, as set out in his book After Virtue If you'd like to support my work producing videos like this, become a Patreon supporter! Here's the link to find out more - including the rewards I offer backers:   / sadler   You can also make a direct contribution to help fund my ongoing educational projects, by clicking here - https://www.paypal.me/ReasonIO or here - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM If you're interested in philosophy tutorial sessions with me - especially on MacIntyre more generally! - click here: https://reasonio.wordpress.com/tutori... You can find the copy of the text I am using for this sequence on MacIntyre's "Plain Persons" here https://amzn.to/3KUbXVf My videos are used by students, lifelong learners, other professors, and professionals to learn more about topics, texts, and thinkers in philosophy, religious studies, literature, social-political theory, critical thinking, and communications. These include college and university classes, British A-levels preparation, and Indian civil service (IAS) examination preparation (Amazon links are associate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases) #MacIntyre #AfterVirtue #Virtue #Ethics #PlainPersons #MoralTheory #Narrative #Aristotelianism #Philosophy #Practices #Rules