Alasdair MacIntyre is research professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of numerous books, including Whose Justice? Which Rationality? (Notre Dame Press, 1988) and Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition (Notre Dame Press, 1990).
“After Virtue is a striking work. It is clearly written and
readable. The nonprofessional will find MacIntyre perspicuous and
lively. He stands within the best modern traditions of writing on
such matters.” —New York Review of Books
“MacIntyre’s arguments deserve to be taken seriously by anybody who
thinks that the mere acceptance of pluralism is not the same thing
as democracy, who worries about politicians wishing to give
opinions about everything under the sun, and who stops to think of
how important Aristotelian ethics have been for centuries.” —The
Economist
“After Virtue is a rigorous, ambitious, and original book. It is a
reinterpretation of the entire history of Western moral philosophy,
as decline, fall, and—possibly—rebirth.” —The Village Voice
“MacIntyre has reconsidered and extended his ideas since the 1981
and 1984 editions, but retains his central thesis that it is only
possible to understand the dominant moral culture of advanced
modernity adequately from a standpoint external to that culture. He
is still an Aristotelian, he says, but has come to believe that
Thomas Aquinas expressed Aristotle's views better than the old man
himself did.” —Reference and Research Book News
“If MacIntyre’s admittedly bleak diagnosis of our times is not
accepted, the rivalry it sparked surely has some benefit for the
interface between competing traditions. And where it is accepted,
it will also be because those who accept it have not give up on our
capacity, despite everything else, to be virtuous.” —Catholic Books
Review
"Alasdair MacIntyre in After Virtue has written one of the most
important books of the decade… a stunning critique of current moral
philosophy and moral practice." — Commonweal Magazine
MaIntyre’s After Virtue is one of the most widely read books of
moral philosophy to appear in recent years. It is written with
little of the technical arguments that limits the readership of
many philosophy works and has drawn considerable response from
readers outside academe.” —The Chronicle of Higher Education
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