Alasdair MacIntyre 
After Virtue 

Highly controversial when it was first published in 1981, Alasdair Mac Intyre »s
After Virtue has since established itself as a landmark work in contemporary moral philosophy. In this book, Mac Intyre sought to address a crisis in moral language that he traced back to a European Enlightenment that had made the formulation of moral principles increasingly difficult. In the search for a way out of this impasse, Mac Intyre returns to an earlier strand of ethical thinking, that of Aristotle, who emphasised the importance of  »virtue » to the ethical life.





More than thirty years after its original publication,
After Virtue remains a work that is impossible to ignore for anyone interested in our understanding of ethics and morality today.