Parish Priests, Stock Traders, and their Limited Moral Reasoning

The parish priest is not an outpost of the CDF, however much he may want to be.

In his recent book Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity, Alasdair MacIntyre explores some of the weaknesses of modern economics. In promoting a Thomistic-Aristotelean moral philosophy, MacIntyre explains how some modern moral philosophies serve to deceive and deflect from important questions. In his chapter on “Theory, practice, and their social context…