After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre - 9780268035044

University of Notre Dame Press

After VirtueA Study in Moral Theory, Third Edition\nAuthor(s): Alasdair MacIntyre\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Notre Dame Press, United States\nImprint: University of Notre Dame Press\nISBN-13: 9780268035044, 978-0268035044\nSynopsis\nWhen After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially controversial critique of contemporary moral philosophy. Newsweek called it \""a stunning new study of ethics by one of the foremost moral philosophers in the English-speaking world.\"" Since that time, the book has been translated into more than fifteen foreign languages and has sold over one hundred thousand copies. Now, twenty-five 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.\""\n\n In this classic work, Alasdair MacIntyre examines the historical and conceptual roots of the idea of virtue, diagnoses the reasons fo""