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episode 6: Virtue is Dead, Long Live Virtue: Marxism and Ethics #1 (With C. Derick Varn)
Marxism needs a better system of ethics. We think that virtue ethics are compatible with the project of human emancipation, so does our friend C. Derick Varn.
After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
MacIntyre, Alasdair C. After virtue : a study in moral theory. Notre Dame, Ind: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. Print.
Marxism and Ethics
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/isj2/2008/isj2-120/blackledge.html
Philippa Foot, major founder of contemporary virtue ethics, “Natural Goodness”
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/philippa-foot/#NatuGood
Marx’s Ethic of Freedom
https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/brenkert.htm