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AI stands to create widespread societal change. That means we humans need to ask some big questions about our purpose.
Mark Zuckerberg recently suggested that AI chatbots could combat social isolation by serving as “friends” for people ...
Mark Zuckerberg says AI chatbots could help people combat loneliness. Aristotle, the ancient Greek philosopher, would likely ...
In today‘s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon looks back upon the ethical views of the late Alasdair MacIntyre. While ...
"We're what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit" may have been attributed to Aristotle to lend it ...
In his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle dedicates significant attention to the role of friendship in a good life. He identifies three types of friendship: utility, pleasure, and virtue, with the ...
Alasdair MacIntyre was a philosopher of ­enormous imaginative power – able to see his own position and that of his rivals ...
We need friends more than ever. The friendships that Aristotle described in Nichomachean Ethics are based on the idea that true friendships require great effort to be maintained. They should not ...