Video and Podcast Resources On Alasdair MacIntyre's Works

eighteen lectures on a great virtue ethicist's conceptions of narrative, practices, virtues, and moral development

One of the great philosophers of the 20th and 21st century, who leaves behind a lasting legacy, is Alasdair MacIntyre. He died recently, and I posted a piece narrating a few memories of him as a person.

I teach a number of his works in my classes, particularly when I am teaching ethics, and I’ve produced a number of core concept videos and then Sadler’s Lectures podcast episodes on some of those works that I keep coming back to. They were originally intended to be resources for my students, but they have turned out to be useful for people of all walks of life all over the world.

Down the line, there are a number of other works by MacIntyre about which I’d like to produce additional series of lectures. I’ll add those to this page when I’ve created them. At present, I have three series of lectures in both video and podcast formats available for you. I think they will provide a decent glimpse into some of the key ideas in the complex conception of virtue ethics MacIntyre developed.

Here are those lectures:

After Virtue, Chapter 14

• Differing Accounts Of The Virtues - watch video | listen to podcast

• How MacIntyre's Account Is Aristotelian - watch video | listen to podcast

• What Is A Practice? - watch video | listen to podcast

• Practices, Standards, Rules, And Goods - watch video | listen to podcast

• Virtues And Institutions - watch video | listen to podcast

• Justice, Courage, And Honesty - watch video | listen to podcast

Plain Persons And Moral Philosophy

• Universal and Particular Moral Questions - watch video | listen to podcast

• Two Key Moral Distinctions - watch video | listen to podcast

• Plain Persons as Proto-Aristotelians - watch video | listen to podcast

• Goods, Rules, and Virtues - watch video | listen to podcast

• Narrative and Moral Development - watch video | listen to podcast

• Narratives of Moral Decline - watch video | listen to podcast

• How Far Should Plain Persons Be Moral Philosophers? - watch video | listen to podcast

How To Appear Virtuous Without Actually Being So

• The Facade Of Moral Consensus - watch video | listen to podcast

• Four Key Questions About Virtue - watch video | listen to podcast

• Pleasure, Mutual Sympathy, & Utility - watch video | listen to podcast

• Aristotelian & Humean Moral Education - watch video | listen to podcast

• Inadequate Shared Public Morality - watch video | listen to podcast

I hope that you find them useful and interesting.