Editorial
Moral Distress in Training: A Disquieting Suggestion
Abstract
In his seminal work After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre famously begins with a thought experiment he entitled “A Disquieting Suggestion.”1 In this introduction, MacIntyre asks his readers to imagine a world in which scientific inquiry previously was viewed as foundational to societal understandings of truth but was subsequently suppressed. Scientists were put to death, laboratories and libraries were burned to the ground, and existing empiric literature was systematically destroyed.This content is limited to qualifying members.
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References
1. MacIntyre A. After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press; 1981, p. 164.
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