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The Freilich Lectures 2007: Religious Toleration in an Age of Terrorism
These lectures ask how religion can be related to violent acts. They begin by considering the ways in which religiously motivated terrorism has been understood in the 21st century and then go on to ask whether the lessons (both historical and philosophical) of the 17th century can illuminate the problems we face in the modern world
Modern Views on Virtue Ethics
Abstract: This paper analyzes some influential ideas in virtue ethics.
Alasdair MacIntyre, in his work After Virtue, and Elizabeth Anscombe,
in his controversial essay âModern Moral Philosophyâ, brought fresh
ideas into moral philosophy of their time changing views on contemporary morality. They strongly influenced moral philosophers who then
followed their ideas. The two philosophers criticized contemporary
moral philosophies such as emotivism, utilitarianism, deontology.
Elizabeth Anscombe criticized also the use of the concepts of duty and
moral obligation in the absence of God as the context God had no place.
For solving the quests of modern morality, both MacIntyre and
Anscombe proposed that the only solution was the returning to ancient
Aristotelian virtues