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After Virtue

by Alasdair MacIntyre
RM67.31 MYR
After Virtue - Thryft
After Virtue - Thryft

Virtue's vital role in contemporary morality.

After Virtue offers a compelling critique of modern moral philosophy and an alternative way forward rooted in Aristotelian virtue ethics. MacIntyre argues that the Enlightenment's emphasis on rationality and individualism has led to a fragmentation of moral discourse, and that only a recovery of the classical tradition of virtue ethics can provide a meaningful framework for ethical reflection. This book is ideal for anyone interested in the history of ethics, the relationship between reason and morality, or the importance of character and virtue for living a good life.

  • APSA Benjamin E. Lippincott Award (2011)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

After Virtue

by Alasdair MacIntyre
RM67.31 MYR
ISBN: 9781780936253
Authors: Alasdair MacIntyre
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Date of Publication: 2013-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Philosophy, History, Religion, Politics
Related Topics: History, Classics, Politics, Christianity, Theology, History, Christian, History
Goodreads rating: 4.18
(rated by 5667 readers)

Description

When 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.” 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 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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Virtue's vital role in contemporary morality.

After Virtue offers a compelling critique of modern moral philosophy and an alternative way forward rooted in Aristotelian virtue ethics. MacIntyre argues that the Enlightenment's emphasis on rationality and individualism has led to a fragmentation of moral discourse, and that only a recovery of the classical tradition of virtue ethics can provide a meaningful framework for ethical reflection. This book is ideal for anyone interested in the history of ethics, the relationship between reason and morality, or the importance of character and virtue for living a good life.

  • APSA Benjamin E. Lippincott Award (2011)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.