Wow! eBook
After Virtue Reprint Edition
Author(s): Alasdair MacIntyre (Author)
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
- Publication Date: 25 April 2013
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Print length: 360 pages
- ISBN-10: 9781780936253
- ISBN-13: 9781780936253
Book Description
Highly controversial when it was first published in 1981, Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue Reprint Edition has since established itself as a landmark work in contemporary moral philosophy. In this book, MacIntyre 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, MacIntyre 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 Reprint Edition remains a work that is impossible to ignore for anyone interested in our understanding of ethics and morality today.Editorial Reviews
Review
Select Guide Rating
About the Author
Alasdair MacIntyre is Senior Research Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame. He is the author of several bestselling books, including After Virtue Reprint Edition, Whose Justice? Which Rationality?, and A Short History of Ethics (a Routledge Classic).
