Reading Groups
MacIntyre’s Dependent Rational Animals
Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago, ILLumen Christi Institute reading courses are faculty-led explorations of an important text. The reading courses are held over a shared meal and all participants are provided a copy of the text.
Fr. Peter Bernardi SJ, LCI’s scholar-in-residence, will lead an exploration of Alisdair MacIntyre’s important late-20th century work, Dependent Rational Animals. MacIntyre both draws from and critiques Aristotle in order to describe our biologically rooted condition and the need to cultivate the virtues that acknowledge our inescapable dependence and inter-dependency.