On Sophocles and conflicting virtues: from “After Virtue” by Alasdair MacIntyre
The ancestor of one of these sets of answers is Plato, for whom as we have seen the virtues are not merely compatible with each other, but the presence of…
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That damn family. Part 1 (of 4) originally published nthposition April/May 2008
“Updating” myths or fairytales has always struck me as an endeavour at best pointless, at worst insulting. Guilty of believing our own times are somehow unique – uniquely wise, uniquely…
Séamus Sweeney 