When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it had been recognized as a substantial and possibly controversial critique of contemporary moral philosophy. After that, the book continues to be translated into a lot more than fifteen international languages and provides sold over 100,000 copies. Right now, twenty-five years later, the University or college of Notre Dame Press is certainly pleased to release the third release of After Virtue, with a brand-new prologue: “After Virtue after a Quarter of a hundred years.”With this common about After Virtue, Third Release work, Alasdair MacIntyre examines the historical and conceptual roots of the thought of virtue, diagnoses the reason why for its absence in personal and general public life, and offers a tentative proposal for its recovery. While the individual chapters are wide-ranging, once pieced jointly they comprise a penetrating and concentrated argument about the price tag on modernity.

In the 3rd edition’s prologue, MacIntyre revisits the central theses from the book and concludes that, although he has learned a great deal and has supplemented and refined his theses and arguments in other functions, he has “as yet found no reason for abandoning the key contentions” of the book. While he recognizes that his conception of human beings as virtuous or vicious needed not just a metaphysical but also a biological grounding, eventually he continues to be “focused on the thesis that it’s only from your standpoint of an extremely different tradition, one whose values and presuppositions had been articulated in their classical form by Aristotle, that people can understand both genesis and the predicament of moral modernity.”