Tonight, Tuesday, September 24th, at 6 pm on The Brian Crombie Hour I interview ✅ Sara MacIntyre and Marc Kealey. ALL my 🎤 podcasts and 🎦 videocasts can be accessed any time on my web site www.briancrombie.com which holds repository of all my shows. 👉 We have a panel discussion about the current state of federal politics and the future of Justin Trudeau with some very surprising conclusions. My panelists are: 📌 Sara MacIntyre is VP, Western Canada for the Convenience Industry Council of Canada (CICC), a communication expert. She was a press secretary for former prime minister Stephen Harper and a director of communications for B.C. Premier Christy Clark. 📌 Marc Kealey is the President of K&A Inc., a Canadian public policy, research and management consultancy. K&A has clients throughout Canada and globally. He has also worked for a former Prime Minister, John Turner. The Brian Crombie Hour airs ⏰ 6:00 pm nightly. Please subscribe to my YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2Oioec8. Stream, listen, like, watch and share. Thank You!

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Political Roundtable | Sara MacIntyre Marc Kealey

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Political Panel | Jan. 2025

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th and 21st century philosopher and moral theorist, Alasdair MacIntyre's essay "Plain Persons and Moral Theory"

It focuses upon the interplay between several general questions asked and addressed by moral theory and corresponding particular questions asked and answered by ordinary people, within the scope and course of their lives.

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Alasdair MacIntyre, Plain Persons - Universal and Particular Moral Questions - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th and 21st century philosopher and moral theorist, Alasdair MacIntyre's essay "Plain Persons and Moral Theory"

It focuses upon two important moral distinctions that MacIntyre argues are  involved in developing "a capacity to become reflective about norms and goals".

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Alasdair MacIntyre, Plain Persons - Two Key Moral Distinctions - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th and 21st century philosopher and moral theorist, Alasdair MacIntyre's essay "Plain Persons and Moral Theory"

It focuses upon his contention that plain persons are often what he calls "proto-Aristotelians" in their broad commitments embodying moral theory, rather than simply neutral blank slates. MacIntyre writes:

"[T]he plain person is funda­mentally a proto-Aristotelian. What is the force of 'fundamentally 'here? What it conveys can be expressed in three claims, first that every human being either lives out her or his life in a narrative form which is structured in terms of a telos, of virtues and of rules in an Aristotelian mode or has disrupted that narrative by committing her or himself to some other way of life, which is best understood as an alternative designed to avoid or escape from an Aristotelian mode of life, so that the lives of those who understand themselves, explicitly or much more probably implicitly, in terms set by Kant or Reid or Sidgwick or Sartre, are still informed by this rejected alternative. 

Secondly, I have told the story of the decline and fall of the plain person as the narrative of a single life. But the story could have been told, and I have told it elsewhere (in After Virtue), as a claim about the narrative history of a set of successive periods in West.em culture from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. This partial mirroring of the fate of individuals in the history of the larger social order and of the fate of that larger order in the narratives of individual lives testifies to the inseparability of the two stories. 

Thirdly, as these first two claims imply, I am also committed to holding that every human being is potentially a fully-fledged and not merely a proto-Aristotelian and that the frustration of that potentiality is among his or her morally important characteristics. We should therefore expect to find, within those who have not been allowed to develop, or have not themselves allowed their lives to develop, an Aristotelian form, a crucial and ineliminable tension between that in them which is and that which is not, Aristotelian. The standard modem anti-Aristotelian self will be a particular kind of divided self, exhibiting that complexity so characteristic of and so prized by modernity."
 

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Alasdair MacIntyre, Plain Persons - Plain Persons as Proto-Aristotelians - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th and 21st century philosopher and moral theorist, Alasdair MacIntyre's essay "Plain Persons and Moral Theory"

It focuses upon 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

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Alasdair MacIntyre, Plain Persons - Narratives of Moral Decline - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th and 21st century philosopher and moral theorist, Alasdair MacIntyre's essay "Plain Persons and Moral Theory"

It focuses upon the extent to which what MacIntyre calls "plain persons" need to be or become moral philosophers. He writes:

"We can now say something more not only about how much of a moral
philosopher the plain person has to be, but also about what kind of a
moral philosopher the plain person has to be and how this may differ
from situation to situation. The plain person needs as much of a theory
as will enable her or him to identify what the significant alternatives
are which now confront her or him, and to understand why and how it
was in the past that she or he did or did not make mistakes in acting in
one way rather than another. That need may not be met, not only if the
plain person is insufficiently a theorist, but also if the theory which is
made available to her or him, even if true and adequate qua theory, is
stated in too much abstraction from the specificities and particularities
of her or his historical and autobiographical situation."

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Alasdair MacIntyre, Plain Persons -  How Far Should Plain Persons Be Moral Philosophers?

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th and 21st century philosopher and moral theorist, Alasdair MacIntyre's essay "Plain Persons and Moral Theory"

It focuses upon MacIntyre's discussion of moral development and a person's life understood as a narrative

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Alasdair MacIntyre, Plain Persons - Narrative and Moral Development - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th and 21st century philosopher and moral theorist, Alasdair MacIntyre's short address "Designing Our Descendants: Seven Traits for the Future", a presentation to the 1978 general meeting at the Hastings Center.

MacIntyre first discusses how intentionally designing descendants is a matter that has political dimensions, then sets out seven key traits that he thinks are most needed, and concludes with projections of what the lives of people in a society where these traits are widespread would look like.

The seven traits in a "new table of virtues" MacIntyre identifies and discusses are:
Ability to live with uncertainty (and an unpredictable environment)
Roots in particularity (a capacity for finding a particular and local way of being a home in the world)
A commitment to non-manipulative modes of relationship with people and nature
Finding a vocation in one's work (an ability to find a work that is peculiarly our own to do in the world)
Accepting one's death (recognition that there will come a time when one's life is complete)
Hope (a spirit of hope for which there cannot be adequate empirical grounds)
Willingness to take up arms (to go to war and to acquire the skill necessary to win a war)

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Alasdair MacIntyre, Designing Our Descendants - A New Table Of Virtues

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