After Virtue, Third Edition
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Narrateur(s):
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Derek Perkins
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Auteur(s):
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Alasdair MacIntyre
À propos de cet audio
When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially controversial critique of contemporary moral philosophy. Since that time, the book has been translated into more than 15 foreign languages and has sold over 100,000 copies. 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".
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'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 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."
©2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc. (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Ce que les auditeurs disent de After Virtue, Third Edition
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- 2025-05-07
A demanding but deeply rewarding book that reframes how you see morality, institutions, and modern life
After Virtue is not an easy read, but it’s one of the most thought-provoking books I’ve ever worked through. MacIntyre makes a compelling case that our modern moral language… especially around concepts like “justice” has become fragmented and hollow because we’ve lost the traditions that once gave it meaning. His critique of Enlightenment liberalism and the rise of emotivism helped me understand not just philosophical disagreements, but the moral confusion beneath many of today’s political and institutional failures.
What stayed with me most was MacIntyre’s idea that practices (like medicine, teaching, or aviation) require virtues like justice, truthfulness, and courage and that institutions exist to support these practices, but often end up corrupting them in pursuit of power or survival. It helped me make sense of everything from public health during COVID to the crisis of trust in universities and the media. It also connected in surprising ways with modern writers like Martin Gurri, who describe how the public now sees through institutional façades, but without a shared vision of virtue to rebuild with.
This is a book I’ll return to—because it doesn’t just critique modernity, it calls for the recovery of moral life rooted in community, tradition, and character. Highly recommended if you’re willing to wrestle with hard ideas.
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