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By Alasdair MacIntyre

When After Virtue first seemed in 1981, it used to be well-known as an important and possibly arguable critique of up to date ethical philosophy. Newsweek called it “a attractive new research of ethics via one of many optimal ethical philosophers within the English-speaking world.” for the reason that that point, the e-book has been translated into greater than fifteen overseas languages and has offered over 100000 copies. Now, twenty-five years later, the collage of Notre Dame Press is happy to free up the 3rd version of After Virtue, which incorporates a new prologue “After Virtue after 1 / 4 of a Century.”

In this vintage paintings, Alasdair MacIntyre examines the historic and conceptual roots of the belief of advantage, diagnoses the explanations for its absence in own and public existence, and gives a tentative notion for its restoration. whereas the person chapters are wide-ranging, as soon as pieced jointly they contain a penetrating and targeted argument in regards to the expense of modernity. within the 3rd variation prologue, MacIntyre revisits the crucial theses of the booklet and concludes that even supposing he has discovered greatly and has supplemented and subtle his theses and arguments in different works, he has “as but came across no reason behind leaving behind the most important contentions” of this publication. whereas he acknowledges that his perception of people as virtuous or vicious wanted not just a metaphysical but additionally a organic grounding, eventually he continues to be “committed to the thesis that it's only from the viewpoint of a really assorted culture, one whose ideals and presuppositions have been articulated of their classical shape via Aristotle, that we will comprehend either the genesis and the main issue of ethical modernity.”

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