In the third edition's 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 the individual chapters are wide-ranging, once pieced together, they comprise a penetrating and focused argument about the price of modernity. 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. Now, 25 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". Since that time, the book has been translated into more than 15 foreign languages and has sold over 100,000 copies. When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially controversial critique of contemporary moral philosophy.
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