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When After Virtue first came out in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially controversial critique of modern day moral philosophy. After that, the publication has been translated into more than 15 overseas dialects and has sold over 100,000 copies. Now, 25 years later, the University or college of Notre Dame Press is very happy to release the 3rd edition of After Virtue, which includes a new prologue: "After Virtue After 25 % of a hundred years". In this traditional work, Alasdair MacIntyre examines the historical and conceptual origins of the thought of virtue, diagnoses the reason why for its lack in personal and general population life, and offers a tentative proposal because of its recovery. While the individual chapters are wide-ranging, once pieced jointly, they include a penetrating and targeted argument about the price of modernity. In the 3rd edition's prologue, MacIntyre revisits the central theses of the publication and concludes that, although he has discovered a good deal and has supplemented and refined his theses and quarrels in other works, he has "up to now found no reason for abandoning the major contentions" of the publication. While he identifies that his conception of human beings as virtuous or vicious needed not only a metaphysical but also a natural grounding, finally he remains "focused on the thesis which 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."
