Defenders of the Faith and Fitness

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In this episode, James and Robby explore the connection between the philosophy of Alasdair MacIntyre, and more specifically his book "After Virtue", and its connection with fitness.

In his book "After Virtue" MacIntyre asks us to imagine there was some sort of catastrophe by which all of our scientific knowledge came to be destroyed.

Eventually enlightened people try to restore that knowledge but all they have are fragments of the past.

For example they know objects near the surface of the Earth fall at 9.8m/s2 but they don’t know the why behind it (gravity)

MacIntyre argues that we are in exactly this situation with regard to the language of morality these days.

In this situation what we call modern morality or ethics is divorced from the original intention of morality where the idea was to achieve the highest good  ...