After Virtue, Third Edition

When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially controversial critique of contemporary moral philosophy. Since that time, the book has been translated into more than 15 foreign languages and has sold over 100,000 copies. Now, 25 years later, the University of Notre Dame Press is pleased to release the third edition of After Virtue, which includes a new prologue: "After Virtue After a Quarter of a Century".

In this classic work, Alasdair MacIntyre examines the historical and conceptual roots of the idea of virtue, diagnoses the reasons for its absence in personal and public life, and offers a tentative proposal for its recovery. While the individual chapters are wide-ranging, once pieced together, they comprise a penetrating and focused argument about the price of modernity.

In the third edition's prologue, MacIntyre revisits the central theses of the book and concludes that, although he has learned a great deal and has supplemented and refined his theses and arguments in other works, he has "as yet found no reason for abandoning the major contentions" of this book. While he recognizes that his conception of human beings as virtuous or vicious needed not only a metaphysical but also a biological grounding, ultimately he remains "committed to the thesis that it is only from the standpoint of a very different tradition, one whose beliefs and presuppositions were articulated in their classical form by Aristotle, that we can understand both the genesis and the predicament of moral modernity."

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Greatest of moral philosophy

This is one of the best moral philosophy books I have read. I’m especially impressed with the historical treatment showing the modern fracturing of the human self that predicates the landscape of competing moral theories.

A Penetrating Examination

“After Virtue” keenly contextualizes and analyzes the inadequacies of modern and post-modern moral philosophy, questioning whether our abandonment of Aristotelianism was actually as wise as many today now assume. A deeply insightful, and thoroughly thought-provoking work.

Excellent evaluation of Aristotelian Ethics vs Humanist Ethics

Excellent evaluation of Aristotelian Ethics vs Humanist Ethics. MacIntyre provides a historical account of ethics from a classical Greece all that to our modern context. His support is that if Virtue Ethics produced by Aristotle. He shows that enlightenment philosophers attempt to destroy virtue ethics has failed in many accounts.

An essential and groundbreaking work of moral philosophy

MacIntyre’s work is a magnificent one and essential to anyone who cares to speak meaningfully with moral language.

Greatly sarisfying.

extremely difficult to follow unfortunately if you have not read into all the refrences. I'd say at least a decade for me otherwise you may be lost. but the arguments are in line with my own thoughts