<p>We discuss what happened when we moved from an enchanted to a disenchanted world with modernity, what we're calling the "After Virtue" world, after MacIntyre's book. We walk through poems by Wordsworth and Hopkins, paintings by Rembrandt and Van Gogh, and the film "Enchanted."</p>

We discuss what happened when we moved from an enchanted to a disenchanted world with modernity, what we're calling the "After Virtue" world, after MacIntyre's book. We walk through poems by Wordsworth and Hopkins, paintings by Rembrandt and Van Gogh, and the film "Enchanted."

CRLM5-Disenchantment & the After Virtue World: 2 Poems & a Movie

Our internet-accelerated society has experienced a fraying of our social bonds. We experience a sense of instability and uncertainty. By drawing on wisdom from the religious traditions, embodied in literature and art, we can supplement our impoverished public discourse. Moreover, we maintain a commitment to our multi-cultural reality, putting collaborative pluralism, weaving, at the center. We can fight a culture of constant distraction and build up our capacity to contemplate and think deeply on enduring realities.

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CRLM5-Disenchantment & the After Virtue World: 2 Poems & a Movie

CRLM5-Disenchantment & the After Virtue World: 2 Poems & a Movie