Jeffrey W. Case

I recently earned my PhD in philosophy at Saint Louis University. My dissertation is an extended argument that Alasdair MacIntyre's views on tradition have a precedent in T.S. Eliot's neglected social theory. I have taught 'Introduction to Philosophy' and 'Ethics' for a decade, with an emphasis on the development of western philosophy from the PreSocratics through Thomas Aquinas in the former course and the virtue tradition in the latter. Although my main interest is the use of philosophy as the 'handmaiden of theology' that enables Christian faith to seek understanding of theological first principles, I approach the epistemological underpinnings of such understanding from a virtue perspective that stresses the importance of tradition to the formation of rationality.