/lit/ - Literature

I dismissed ethics as completely hollow and unworthy of pursuit. That is, as a concept. A mere historical product removed from reality and practice, aside from when it was more greatly embedded in the cultures of ancients, more of a reflection or aspect, rather than a divorced discipline. I had little education in it, mostly implicit. Though the basic ideas are extremely easy to pick up. This book was so clear and easy to follow (yet still left much room for deepening) that I genuinely wanted to study ethics in full, to better grasp what was being said. There were no leaps or reasoning or ideas, that I missed or was unable to follow. Thus far, ethics as a discipline seems to lack obscurity or obfuscation. Despite the fact that essentially nothing in it has a concrete basis.

Recommend ethics texts.

So, I have to read "Whose Justice? Which Rationality?" huh? Macintyre makes a strong ass claim and backs it up. But a set of virtues, an objective telos that is established by acting out practices and social tradition doesn't cut it, yet it does approach the solution in my opinion. He shat on Nietzsche though lol; that was good.

I need to read more Aquinas, I think, to seek out that real-rational-basis-for-an-objective-telos, just to hammer in that the Aristotelian scheme is the best we have and the most cogent.

Has anyone read it? I am interested in reading it. I don't scare easily from dense texts and ideas—I mention this, because it seems to fit the description.

Would you recommend it /lit/? Haven't read Aristotle at all, but I am Catholic; I imagine that would make me more familiar with the Aristotle material than not.

I just finished reading this bad boy for the second time, and would love to hear /lit/'s thoughts on AV and Macintyre in general.

Is ethics really just "lol virtues bro?"
Also is he right that whitey has to pay reparations for slavery?

What are the prerequisites to read After Virtue?

I want to understand this book. What else should I read?