Month: February 2024

Unveiling academic Practices: A reflection on goods and virtues

Paolo Veronese: Youth between Virtue and Vice

Link to post on Teaching Matters blog: https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/teaching-matters/unveiling-academic-practices-a-reflection-on-goods-and-virtues/ In this brief post, I turn to the concept of practice as articulated by the Scottish-American philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre, and draw connections to academic study and the university classroom. I suggest that regarding what we and our students do as a practice – and the classroom as one of …