In our moment when shared ethical languages seem impossible and where associational life is in decline, this reading and discussion group aims to investigate several related questions: What conditions do ethics require? Is it possible to create a shared ethical world that is neither oppressively exclusive nor so capacious as to be meaningless? Is ethics even a useful register through which to discern "a good life" or are they dependent upon other social/material questions?  For this session, we'll finish with Alisdair Macintyre's After Virtue, Chapters 16-19, and discuss what we want to discuss next. No need to have attended prior meetings to attend this one and no need to have finished all of the reading!