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After Virtue

Alasdair MacIntyre·1981·English

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Argues that modern moral philosophy is fragmented, having inherited pieces of older ethical traditions without the shared practices that once made them meaningful. Proposes a revival of Aristotelian virtue ethics grounded in tradition and practice.

A crucial turning point in that earlier history occurred when men and women turned aside from the moral tradition of heroic societies... to try to found their moral beliefs upon some new and non-traditional basis. What I have called the Enlightenment project of justifying morality failed.

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