We aim at goods in our life. These include money, status and power, but also the types of excellence that can only come from certain practices: working a fishing crew, playing football or chess, studying philosophy, etc. Traditional societies debate how to order the goods in a community’s common life, but modern ones exclude such questions of value from politics. Can we claim that some activities or ways of life are more valuable than others? Join Morningside for a conversation with Dan Addison on whether politics can direct us to certain forms of the good life.

This seminar is the first meeting of our Fall 2024 series, MacIntyre Against Modernity.

Please RSVP as lunch will be served.