Volume 28, Number 17 · November 5, 1981
Can We Live the Good Life?
By J.M. Cameron
After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
by Alasdair MacIntyre
University of Notre Dame Press, 249 pp., $15.95
The elective system in most North American universities and colleges means that undergraduates may, within limits, make up their own combinations of subjects during their three or four years of study. In the better institutions there may be much guidance, even direction. But the ethos expressed in the system relies upon the idea that by right the undergraduate chooses for himself the subjects that compose his course, just as the customer chooses dishes as he passes along the cafeteria line.
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