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David McPherson

2 years

Very exciting day: my author’s copies of The Virtues of Limits (⁦ @OUPPhilosophy ⁩ ⁦ @OxUniPress ⁩ ⁦ @OUPAcademic ⁩) just arrived in the mail!

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

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An academic’s dream come true: I saved up and had floor-to-ceiling bookshelves built in my home office! And there is plenty of room for more books!

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

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Working on a project on spiritual seeking in a secular age. What other books do people recommend?

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

8 months

Amazingly at age 92, Charles Taylor has yet another big book coming out with @Harvard_Press - I look forward to reading it (I knew he was working on this book along with his last book The Language Animal since when I interviewed him over a decade ago)

Cosmic Connections — Harvard University Press

A major new work by Charles Taylor: the long-awaited follow-up to The Language Animal, exploring the Romantic poetics central to his theory of language.The Language Animal, Charles Taylor’s 2016...

www.hup.harvard.edu

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

2 years

BOOK GIVEAWAY! 5 signed copies of my book Virtue and Meaning (⁦ @CambUP_PHILNYUK ⁩): 1 to someone who likes this post, 2 to people who retweet; 2 to new followers. Lottery system; will notify via DM on Friday. Restricted to people in the US due to shipping costs.

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

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There's a phenomenon of Marxists who end up moving in a conservative direction (MacIntyre, Cohen, Lasch, etc.). Can people think of other instances? Also, how do you explain it? I ask because I'm working on an essay on After Virtue and Conservatism for a CUP volume on AV at 40.

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David McPherson

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2 years

Bernard Williams on the scientistic style of much analytic philosophy in his essay "Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline":

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

2 years

BOOK GIVEAWAY! I’m giving away two hardback copies of The Virtues of Limits (⁦ @OUPPhilosophy ⁩), randomly selected from LIKES, RETWEETS, and NEW FOLLOWERS. I’ll announce the winners in 5 days. (I also plan to do a giveaway when the paperback is out.) US only due to costs.

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

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I'm looking forward to Charles Taylor's new big book "Cosmic Connections: Poetry in an Age of Disenchantment" ( @Harvard_Press ) coming out next week. I'm especially looking forward to the chapters on Hopkins and Eliot. It's amazing he is still publishing books like this at 93!

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

3 years

I am happy to share the full cover (including endorsements) for The Virtues of Limits, which is forthcoming in December with @OUPPhilosophy @OxUniPress @OUPAcademic

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

3 years

I am very pleased to share the cover for The Virtues of Limits ( @OUPPhilosophy @OUPAcademic @OxUniPress ):

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

3 years

I received the proofs for The Virtues of Limits ( @OUPPhilosophy @OUPAcademic @OxUniPress ) - exciting to see!

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

10 months

Proof reading time for my contribution to this edited volume on MacIntyre's After Virtue at 40 ( @CambUP_PHILNYUK ):

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

2 years

Lots of good examples so far - any explanations? The most common, I think, is "mugged by reality"? Would people argue Marxism itself has a conservative tendency (as a kind of romanticism)? A conservative lament: "All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned"?

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

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@DrJavadTHashmi @Helenreflects Don't want to say publicly, but let's just say I had to save up for a while 😀

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

2 years

Got some more copies of The Virtues of Limits (⁦ @OUPPhilosophy ⁩ ⁦ @OxUniPress ⁩) for review work, which I will be sending out to people who helped me with the book

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

3 months

I'm pleased to announce I've finalized a grant agreement with @templeton_fdn for a 3-year project on “Spiritual Yearning and the Problem of Spiritual Alienation,” connected with their research initiative on “The Search for Meaning among the Nonreligious.”

Spiritual Yearning Research Initiative: The Search for Meaning Among the Nonreligious

www.templeton.org

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

3 years

I got the paperback copies of my book Virtue and Meaning (⁦ @CambridgeUP ⁩ ⁦ @CambUP_PHILNYUK ⁩ ⁦ @CUPAcademic ⁩) in the mail - they look good!

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

3 years

My spouse Kirstin’s latest watercolor painting and one of my favorites: our son Peter playing with the water at a creek in Rocky Mountain National Park.

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

2 years

I am looking for recommendations for good work on loneliness, whether from philosophy, psychology, or the social sciences. I am writing on this for my current book project on spiritual alienation. Thanks!

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

2 years

Very happily, I just received this in the mail - many thanks to Eleonore Stump for sending me a copy of her new book The Image of God (⁦ @OUPPhilosophy )! I⁩ look forward to reading it (it’s very relevant to my current book project, Spiritual Alienation & the Quest for God).

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

3 years

I just sent in the final manuscript of The Virtues of Limits to @OUPPhilosophy @OxUniPress @OUPAcademic . I am looking forward to seeing it in print!

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

4 months

Happy Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas: 'Nobody will understand the Thomist philosophy who does not realize that the fundamental part of it is the praise of Life, the praise of Being, the praise of God as the Creator of the World. Everything else follows a long way after that' (GKC).

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

2 years

A fav from Aristotle: "Whatever someone regards as ... the end for which he chooses to be alive, that is the activity he wishes to pursue in his friend’s company. Hence some friends drink together, others play dice, while others do gymnastics and go hunting, or do philosophy."

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

2 years

I thought some people might like to see the other possibility I was given for a cover for The Virtues of Limits ( @OUPPhilosophy ) - I think I definitely made the right choice, but I also like the alternative cover.

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

7 months

Many thanks to @sabrinablittle for this excellent review of my book The Virtues of Limits ( @OUPPhilosophy ). Sabrina really grasps and appreciates the nature of the project, while also adding very important insights of her own.

Sabrina Little

@sabrinablittle

7 months

My review of @davidlmcpherson 's book, The Virtues of Limits, is out in the Journal of Moral Philosophy. It is easily one of the best books on virtue in the past decade.

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

2 years

My wife Kirstin is learning the classical realist method of drawing, and she just finished a drawing of Homer (11 x 15 graphite on paper; for sale for $100, shipping included in US)

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

3 years

I am very pleased to announce that I have signed a contract for my second book monograph The Virtues of Limits with @OxUniPress @OUPPhilosophy

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

2 years

Today is the official publication date for The Virtues of Limits ( @OUPPhilosophy @OxUniPress ) in the UK! The pub date is February 15th in the US, though copies ship out on January 15th in the US. Here's the 30% discount code for the OUP website: AAFLYG6

David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

2 years

Very exciting day: my author’s copies of The Virtues of Limits (⁦ @OUPPhilosophy ⁩ ⁦ @OxUniPress ⁩ ⁦ @OUPAcademic ⁩) just arrived in the mail!

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David McPherson

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3 years

@BrandonWarmke My personal favorite is "brave" - in the olden day it described something done on the battlefield, now it is said of those who say the things that meet with widespread approval of one's academic peers.

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

3 years

My review of Simon May's excellent book Love: A New Understanding of an Ancient Emotion ( @OUPPhilosophy @OxUniPress @OUPAcademic ), where he puts forward a compelling account of love as seeking "ontological rootedness," that is, being at home in the world:

Love: A New Understanding of an Ancient Emotion

Is a new understanding of love really possible? And could it be a convincing one that has somehow been overlooked by previous theories of love?

academic.oup.com

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

2 years

This is ridiculous. I hope @OUPPhilosophy stands strong against these anti-philosophical bullies. OUP needs to be a place where these debates can happen, not a place that silences one side. I am sure the vast majority of OUP authors, like myself, agree.

OUP USA Guild

@oupusaguild

2 years

We, the members of the OUP USA Guild, are calling upon our colleagues and authors to take a stand against the upcoming publication of “Gender-Critical Feminism”. Sign the petition below (OUP employees and authors only).

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

3 years

The paperback edition of my book Virtue and Meaning: A New-Aristotelian Perspective ( @CambUP_PHILNYUK @CambridgeUP ) is now available, and at an affordable price!

Virtue and Meaning

The revival of Aristotelian virtue ethics can be seen as a response to the modern problem of disenchantment, that is, the perceived loss of meaning in modernity. However, in Virtue and Meaning, David...

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

2 years

I just uploaded on PhilPapers this essay I wrote on Bernard Williams, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Charles Taylor, which is titled "Three Rival Versions of the Relationship of Religion and Modernity," which was for a symposium on religion and secularism:

David McPherson, Three Rival Versions of the Relationship of Religion to Modernity - PhilPapers

philpapers.org

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

3 years

Look what I got in the mail ⁦ @BrandonWarmke ⁩ - I look forward to reading it! ⁦ @OUPPhilosophy ⁩ ⁦ @OxUniPress ⁩ ⁦ @OUPAcademic ⁩

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

2 years

Here's a draft of my essay on MacIntyre's After Virtue and Conservatism for a CUP volume on After Virtue at 40.

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

2 years

@ehritzema I think that is a good explanation - there's something right in the Marxist critique of capitalism, but it lacks a feasible and desirable positive program. And of course traditionalists conservatives have often been critical of capitalism too:

Conservatives Against Capitalism: From the Industrial Revolution to Globalization

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

2 years

I just saw Rosalind Hursthouse has a collection of essays coming out with @OUPPhilosophy , and it has a number of essays that I did not know about, but which look very interesting. I look forward to getting this.

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

2 years

Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn ... Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death Pray for us now and at the hour of our death. - T. S. Eliot, "Ash Wednesday"

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

8 days

I am thrilled to share our press release for the 21 new hires we have made this year! Top-notch scholars and people! I am really excited for what we are building ⁦⁦ @ufhamilton ⁩ (soon to be the 17th college ⁦ @UF ⁩).

Hamilton Center welcomes 21 new faculty members

news.ufl.edu

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

2 years

(2/2) The abortion debate is not about whether the human embryo or fetus (or child) is alive (clearly this is the case), but rather about when a human life has full moral status. In other words, it is a debate about whether we all share a fundamental human equality.

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

2 years

"Alienation is the normal condition of human existence. Rebellion against God is the natural reaction to the discovery that the world was not made for our personal convenience... Religious faith asserts the goodness of being in the face of suffering and evil." - Christopher Lasch

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

2 years

@lee_trepanier has a book along the lines of this phenomenon:

Walk Away: When the Political Left Turns Right (Political Theory for Today)

This book examines key twentieth-century philosophers, theologians, and social scientists who began their careers with commitments to the political left only later to reappraise or reject them. Their...

www.amazon.com

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

2 years

Kirstin (my wife) just finished a master copy of Bouguereau’s 1886 painting “A Young Girl.”

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

3 years

Working on getting the final manuscript of The Virtues of Limits ready to submit to @OUPPhilosophy @OUPAcademic - the biggest influences are clearly: Wiggins, G. A. Cohen, Sandel, Kass, Diamond, Chesterton, Kolnai, Scruton, Aristotle, and Wendell Berry.

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

9 months

First day of class at UF is in the books. I thought I’d share some pictures of the beautiful future home of the Hamilton College (the Great Books college I am involved in getting built up), which is undergoing major renovations, particularly inside. Can’t wait to move in there!

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

2 years

My wife Kirstin’s first commissioned watercolor painting - I am very proud of her development as a watercolor painter (she’s just been doing it for about a year or so).

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

8 months

Here's my interview with Taylor:

Re-Enchanting the World: An Interview with Charles Taylor - Volume 24, Issue 2, 2012

This interview with Charles Taylor explores a central concern throughout his work, viz., his concern to confront the challenges presented by the process of ‘disenchantment’ in the modern world. It...

www.pdcnet.org

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

9 months

We are hiring for a number of senior, junior, and postdoc positions in the Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education at UF. We are building up the Center into a Great Books college. It’s an exciting undertaking! Here’s the senior position:

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

1 month

@spartanburger91 @DrJavadTHashmi @Helenreflects Height is a little over 11″, and the depth is 12″ - I was just trying to maximize space and fit standard academic books (including bigger ones). 10 foots ceiling with 9 shelves for 8 rows of shelves.

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

8 days

I am thrilled to have @BrandonWarmke joining me @UF in @ufhamilton !

Brandon Warmke

@BrandonWarmke

8 days

🐊 Big news: starting fall 2025, I’ll be moving to the University of Florida where I’ll be Associate Professor of Humanities at the Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education. I’m thrilled to help build a growing institution devoted to truth-seeking 🐊 @UF @ufhamilton

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

6 months

One of my favorite lines in all of Plato's works: "Let parents, then, bequeath to their children not a heap of riches, but the spirit of reverence." - Laws, Book V

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

3 years

"Given the limits of our existence, we will never realize a state of perfection through our striving, and so we need a way of living with imperfection, that is, we need a way of coming to see life in the world as good and worth affirming despite the ill." #TheVirtuesofLimits

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

4 years

An interview I did with @CCamosy for @Crux about my book Virtue and Meaning (Cambridge University Press, 2020):

Scholar says modern society needs faith to battle ‘disenchantment’

David McPherson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. He spoke to Crux about “disenchantment” in modern society.

cruxnow.com

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

2 years

For those interested, here is a podcast on Dostoevsky I did with @jennfrey on @eudaimoniapod a couple years ago. It is always fun talking with Jen. Her podcast is really great and I encourage you to follow it.

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

3 years

The Virtues of Limits ( @OUPPhilosophy @OxUniPress @OUPAcademic ) is now available for pre-order on Amazon in the US:

The Virtues of Limits

www.amazon.com

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

2 years

Thanks to Todd May for this nice review of The Virtues of Limits ( @OUPPhilosophy ) in @NDPReviews . While I don't think the criticisms quite capture the nuance of my views (hard to do in a short review), it appreciatively conveys the overall argument well.

The Virtues of Limits

At the outset of his seminal work The Feast of Fools, the theologian Harvey Cox distinguishes between “world-changers” and “life-celeb...

ndpr.nd.edu

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

2 years

My new book The Virtues of Limits ( @OUPPhilosophy ) is on sale for 40% off ($42 in hardback) with free shipping (you'll see the discount when you add to cart) - OUP is having sale connected to the Eastern APA until Jan 22. Please retweet if so inclined!

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

2 years

‘In virtue of the deep involvement of moral luck in the acquisition and persistence of virtue, it is misleading to think of virtue as an individual achievement. But that is no tragedy. We may well have a richer view of virtue if we regard it largely as a gift.’ - R. M. Adams

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

6 months

You can read (and download) the first chapter of my book The Virtues of Limits (Oxford, 2022) here. Also, please repost, if you feel so inclined. Thanks!

Oxford Philosophy

@OUPPhilosophy

6 months

Exploring two fundamental existential stances, "Existential Limit" by @davidlmcpherson delves into the works of Friedrich Nietzsche and, more recently, Ronald Dworkin. Read the #FreeChapter here, as part of our #VirtuesandVices collection:

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David McPherson

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4 months

I received in the mail today two books to which I contributed essays - I look forward to reading the other essays!

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

7 months

I read a draft of this new book from @BrandonWarmke and @JustinTosi , and it is excellent. They offer a compelling defense of “minding one’s own business” through becoming rooted, attending to your home and what is near, and making space for solitude.

Why It's OK to Mind Your Own Business

Every year, millions of students in the United States and around the world graduate from high school and college. Commencement speakers—often distilling the hopes of parents and four years of...

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

3 years

I am very happy to share this symposium on my book Virtue and Meaning: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective ( @CambUP_PHILNYUK @CambridgeUP ) just published in @ResPhil with excellent contributions from @CharacterGap and P. J. Ivanhoe.

Res Philosophica

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

3 years

My book The Virtues of Limits ( @OUPPhilosophy @OxUniPress ) is now available for pre-order in the UK (I will post again when the US page goes up; you can also order to US and elsewhere from UK). Here is a 30% discount code: AAFLYG6

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2 years

“One may stand perplexed ... seeing men’s sin, asking oneself: “Shall I take it by force, or by humble love?” Always resolve to take it by humble love. If you so resolve once and for all, you will be able to overcome the whole world.” (Zosima in The Brothers Karamazov)

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David McPherson

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A symposium on my book Virtue and Meaning: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective ( @CambridgeUP @CambUP_PHILNYUK ) is now out with American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly:

American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly

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David McPherson

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2 years

Just back from our family trip and happily found a hard copy of this symposium on my book Virtue and Meaning (⁦ @CambUP_PHILNYUK ⁩ ⁦ @CambridgeUP )⁩ waiting for me, which has great contributions from ⁦ @CharacterGap ⁩ (Wake Forest) and PJ Ivanhoe (Georgetown).

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David McPherson

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Very hard to pick one, but I think a case can be made for humility (the master limiting virtue), reverence (necessary for humility and avoiding nihilistic will to power), gratitude (Ignatius: ingratitude is the greatest sin), and love (Augustine: ethics is rightly ordered love).

John Templeton Foundation

@templeton_fdn

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What's your favorite virtue, and why?

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“The task of morality is to place limits on our desires and our wills such that they accord with the given structures of the world and human nature.” Thanks @Zheschool for this fine review of my book The Virtues of Limits ( @OUPPhilosophy ): via @americamag

Review: The difference between ‘becoming like God’ and ‘playing God’? The virtues of humility and...

David McPherson's new book on the importance of placing limitations on our ambitions and desires touches on existential, political, moral and economic questions.

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

2 years

Here in @PublicDiscourse , drawing on Philippa Foot's idea of the virtues as correctives, I seek to answer The Big Lebowski's question "What makes a man?"

What Makes a Man: Reflections on the Virtues of Manhood

Given that there are natural sex differences, it’s no surprise that those differences include some tendencies that can cause problems. This is true for both men and women. Yet the tenor of contempo...

www.thepublicdiscourse.com

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David McPherson

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Looking forward to being one of the keynotes for this conference at @ProvidenceCol with @moveincircles , @LarryChappGS22 , Kimbell Kornu, and @theologianmom :

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David McPherson

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"There is a human loneliness that stems from some other source than the lack of companionship ... The separation between the self-conscious being and his world is not to be overcome by any natural process. It can be remedied only by grace." (Roger Scruton, The Face of God)

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Today is the official US release date for The Virtues of Limits ( @OUPPhilosophy ). Here is the 30% discount code for ordering the book on the OUP website: AAFLYG6. The first printing sold out, but it is currently reprinting (it is in stock on Amazon).

The Virtues of Limits

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David McPherson

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3 years

Got my @Routledge_Phil haul for review work, with books from @jennfrey @HSJSpeaks etc. I look forward to reading them!

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3 years

The virtue of neighborliness is a kind of human solidarity that recognizes the moral significance of proximity. It calls us to solidarity with concrete rather than abstract humanity. As Chesterton puts it: "we have to love our neighbour because he is there." #TheVirtuesofLimits

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David McPherson

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(1/2) After listening to the oral arguments in the Dobbs case, I am continually amazed how many people (including Justice Sotomayor today) frame it as a debate about “when life begins,” and act as if that is some heady philosophical dispute.

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David McPherson

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Updated Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Virtue Ethics out today (by Glen Pettigrove, originally by Rosalind Hursthouse). I am happy to see my book Virtue and Meaning (Cambridge, 2020) now in the bibliography.

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“The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.” -- G. K. Chesterton

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David McPherson

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2 years

I am turning the big 40 tomorrow - recommendations for how to stave off a midlife crisis?

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

2 years

I really appreciated this essay by ⁦ @sabrinablittle ⁩ on the virtue of contentment, which draws on my book The Virtues of Limits (⁦ @OUPPhilosophy ⁩). I look forward to Sabrina’s book The Examined Run, forthcoming with OUP.

Contentment

An article about finish-line emotions and finding contentment.

www.irunfar.com

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David McPherson

@davidlmcpherson

7 months

I look forward to this very interesting volume of essays coming out in a month. My wife Kirstin and I contributed an essay on Babette's Feast, one of our favorite films.

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David McPherson

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'The [religious] response to loss is to bear it as a loss ... seeing it as a form of consecrated suffering. ... The loss of religion makes real loss difficult to bear ... people flee from [it]. The loss of religion, one might suggest, is the loss of loss.'

The Work of Mourning | Roger Scruton

In a significant essay entitled “Mourning and Melancholia,” Freud wrote of “the work of . . . .

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@ulrichlehner I am not going to say that I don't share this dream! But that dream probably will not be realized...

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I had great talk on and conversation about The Virtues of Limits today at MSU Denver for the Denver Project for Humanistic Inquiry (despite what the photo suggests, which was taken before hand, it was a great turn out at a very cool venue).

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I am glad to be part of this volume with @CambUP_PHILNYUK . My contribution is on "After Virtue and Conservatism."

MacIntyre's After Virtue at 40 | Ethics

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Thanks @LeahLibresco for including my book The Virtues of Limits ( @OUPPhilosophy ) among the books you hope to read in 2022 - I hope it works out!

Books I Hope to Read in 2022

I wrapped up 2021 with 10/11 of the books on my reading list finished. (I had ambitions of at least starting to read Peace and Penance in Late Medieval Italy on December 31st, but instead I took a …

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Wonderful, insightful reflections by @nmpenn in @PublicDiscourse on the importance of embracing our limits, which engage with my new book The Virtues of Limits ( @OUPPhilosophy @OxUniPress ). Thanks Nicole! I also love the painting used here.

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David McPherson

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The word “utopia” is formed from the Greek words ou (“not”) and topos (“place”), which suggests it is a “no place”: it exists nowhere, except for in the imagination. A politics of imperfection, by contrast, is an embrace of somewhere with all its imperfection. #TheVirtuesofLimits

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David McPherson

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Here is a discount flier for the paperback edition of my book Virtue and Meaning: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective ( @CambUP_PHILNYUK @CUPAcademic @CambridgeUP ).

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“[To] be able to give, one has to possess; and we possess no other life, no other sap, than the treasures stored up from the past and digested, assimilated and created afresh by us.” - Simone Weil, The Need for Roots

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I also recommend this excellent essay: Typescript here:

What is Humane Philosophy and Why is it At Risk? | Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements |...

What is Humane Philosophy and Why is it At Risk? - Volume 65

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Here's the link for my upcoming online talk on The Virtues of Limits ( @OUPPhilosophy ) for @TAngelicum , where you can register (open to all). It is 10 am, Sat, April 23 in Hong Kong, and 8 pm, Fri, April 22 my time in the US (Mountain Time).

The Virtues of Limits - Thomistic Institute

Living Well in Troubled Times: The 2022 Hong Kong Philosophy Series The Virtues of Limits David McPherson Creighton University 23 April 2022 10:00am Hong Kong Language: English In this talk, David...

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Just got Steve Bruce's "God is Dead: Secularization in the West" and his "Secularization: In Defence of an Unfashionable Theory" in the mail.

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David McPherson

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“We must have limits or we will cease to exist as humans; perhaps we will cease to exist, period. Our human and earthly limits, properly understood, are not confinements but rather inducements to formal elaboration and elegance, to fullness of relationship and meaning.” (W Berry)

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“Above all, do not lie to yourself. A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others.” -- Zosima in Dostoevsky’s BK

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David McPherson

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@BrandonWarmke Interesting that the survey had a 10% response rate - I know I didn't respond! I don't like this kind of stuff. I suspect heterodox people might be less likely to respond to this stuff. But still I think the numbers would be bad with a 100% response rate.

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Belated fireworks after a rainy 4th of July

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1/2: “[For] Aristotle the life of the mind consists, to a large degree, in observing, doing research, and reflecting on one’s observations. Yet this activity is carried out in a certain spirit, which we might go so far as to describe as an almost religious passion for reality …

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An evergreen insight from Paul Woodruff's Reverence book:

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David McPherson

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This is an excellent essay by @xaviersymons . We need to give up our illusory and harmful aspirations toward omnipotent control and learn to accept and embrace our human finitude (themes of my own work, especially of my new book The Virtues of Limits).

The End of the Pandemic

Perhaps the end of the pandemic is not a matter of eliminating COVID-19 but rather coming to terms with our own mortality. We need to learn how to survive and thrive in the pandemic, even as we try...

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