Enlightenment's Wake: The Return of Virtue?
Which way, Western man? Freedom or Virtue? Or: A Rebuttal of "Virtue Ethics"
If you had to choose between virtue (and thus excellence) or freedom, what would you choose? Or is there at all such a sharp distinction between the two as virtue ethicists would have us believe.
In the wake of the Enlightenment, its hopes and aspirations having all but dissipated, virtue ethics have been making a comeback. Not least since Alasdair MacIn…