‘Are NeoAristotelianism and Expressivism Incompatible? Reflections on Alasdair MacIntyre’s Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity.’ Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 95 (2022).
This paper is part of an ongoing project to understand the ways in which Aristotelian eudaimonism might account for the phenomenon of human love. I argue that MacIntyre is incorrect to assert that expressivist metaethics invalidates NeoAristotelian first-order moral theory, and that certain moral transformations can best be explained from within an expressivist framework in which moral claims bottom out in what an agent loves.
In this paper, I argue that Book X of Augustine’s Confessions presents an answer to Meno’s paradox as applied to the search for God. I show how memories of joy and truth are sufficient to target a successful search for God and to recognize God once he has been found – cases of concupiscence and self-deception notwithstanding.