On Alasdair MacIntyre
On Facebook, I posted a bit of my musings on the “secular confession,” and a FB ‘friend” wondered if my Morality of Everyday Life, which he had ordered, was much like Alasdair MacIntyre. I posted the following answer..
On Facebook, I posted a bit of my musings on the “secular confession,” and a FB ‘friend” wondered if my Morality of Everyday Life, which he had ordered, was much like Alasdair MacIntyre. I posted the following answer..
Butch Cassidy, Thomas Jefferson, Loretta Lynn, Pete Rose, Leonardo da Vinci, Durkheim, Charlie Chaplin
I’ll take the last two commandments as a whole, since they are saying, in essence, the same thing: Nobody has the right to tell anyone what is right for him or her. You should be free to live any way you want so long as you’re not harming other people.
Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Casadessus, Buddha, Cioran, W.C. Fields, Charles Baudelaire (PS, the final “s” in fleur de lis is pronounced!)
My question is about your thoughts on what Tim Keller has described as the Catechism of Secularism. These beliefs have so completely dominated our culture that they are like the air we breathe.