Re: Virtue Reborn – Tom Wright

by peter wilkinson - 25/02/2010 - 13:15

Wright refers to ‘emotivism’, using that term, and his contrast of this with externally based rules as a guide for behaviour sounds similar to MacIntyre. The comment about the Marxists is intriguing, since in many ways, Marxism/communism is a religion which is a parody of Christianity.

Virtue Reborn – Tom Wright By: peter wilkinson (10 replies) 23 February, 2010 - 16:48

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