After Virtue

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Highly controversial when it was first published in 1981, Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue 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 remains a work that is impossible to ignore for anyone interested in our understanding of ethics and morality today.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781780936253
Published: April 2013

Number of pages: 360
Width: 138 mm
Height: 214 mm
Depth: 22 mm

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC