Ben’s Reviews > After Virtue > Status Update

Two years in...reading this book on and off...I refuse to give it up. I WILL finish by the end of the summer!

turns out medieval people weren't completely backwards and they asked themselves the same kind of questions we ask ourselves https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronol...

Heroic societies sound kind of like Netflix corporate culture

"the realm of managerial expertise is one in which what purport to be objectively-grounded claims function in fact as expressions of arbitrary, but disguised, will and preference."
Sounds like what every management consultant tells me they do: "CEOs ask us for analyses that support conclusions they have already decided are correct. We only serve to legitimize their opinions to their boards"

“The [17th century] explanation of man’s action is increasingly held to be a matter of laying bare the psychological and physical mechanisms which underlie action” boy it sure sounds like this section of Phaedo re: causality https://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy...

Glad that MacIntyre repeats his earlier points because this book is very dense and I'm taking a long time to finish it
"One might say it's unusual to classify 'managerial effectiveness' as a moral concept along w/ 'rights' and 'utility'". He's saying that when managers claim they "know how to get the job done," and then tell their workers what to do, they're saying: "I'm good at this, so do as I say." good = moral

When people attend a protest, they always make signs and chant slogans in terms that their fellow protesters will agree with. They're always "preaching to the choir" because no opponent of their position would be swayed by their language. Nor does a protester attend the protest with an openness to being proven wrong about the righteousness of their cause. So, a protest is mostly for the protesters

says that Aristotle's moral framework had three elements: an "untutored" self, a "realized" self, and a set of teachings that can raise one from the former to the latter. then says that utilitarianism takes out the "realized" self. I was thinking that the "realized" self could be "a person who acts to maximize utility," and what utilitarianism is missing are the teachings of what utils actually are (and how to live)