The great moral: MacIntyre and the integrative character of the perennial philosophy

Abstract

For several decades in the contemporary academic world, the issues of interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity have been taking hold. This as a response of a sector of the scientific community to the problems of specialization and disconnection between sciences. Like any element or aspect of reality, this subject requires a proper philosophical foundation found in classical thinking. This article attempts to show the relationship between the tradition of perennial philosophy and this foundation. This is done by paying attention, above all, to the importance of the holistic view of ethical phenomena and trying to support the idea that the dialogue between the sciences is only possible by rescuing the metaphysical paradigm bequeathed by the Greeks to Western civilization and defended by MacIntyre in his book Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity. An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrative (University of Cambridge, 2016).