Author: Ricardo Cárdenas

In 1988, Scottish philosopher, Alasdair MacIntyre published a book titled “Whose Justice? Which Rationality?” In this book, MacIntyre argued that human rationality is grounded in some foundational source-tradition of thought or inquiry. These foundational traditions of rationality (whether we are aware of them) are the soil that our values, ethics and moral frameworks grow out.…

Recently, I had the opportunity to visit a city-owned cultural arts and events center in the Denver area. This venue is in a particularly diverse pocket of town; over 90 languages are spoken within the local schools. There are some trendy microbreweries in the neighborhood, but overall this community has resisted the physical gentrification that…