After Virtue, Third Edition Audiobook (Free)

When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and possibly controversial critique of contemporary moral philosophy. After that, the book has been translated into a lot more than fifteen international languages and provides sold over 100,000 copies. Now, twenty-five years later on, the University of Notre Dame Press is certainly pleased to launch the third model of After Virtue, which includes a brand-new prologue: “After Virtue after 25 % of a hundred years.”Within this classic about After Virtue, Third Release function, Alasdair MacIntyre examines the historical and conceptual roots of the thought of virtue, diagnoses the reasons because of its absence in personal and general public life, and offers a tentative proposal because of its recovery. While the specific chapters are wide-ranging, once pieced collectively they comprise a penetrating and concentrated argument about the price of modernity.

In the 3rd edition’s prologue, MacIntyre revisits the central theses from the book and concludes that, although he has discovered a great deal and has supplemented and enhanced his theses and arguments in other works, he has “up to now found no reason behind abandoning the major contentions” of the book. While he identifies that his conception of human beings as virtuous or vicious required not only a metaphysical but also a biological grounding, ultimately he remains “committed to the thesis that it is only from the standpoint of an extremely different tradition, one whose beliefs and presuppositions had been articulated within their traditional form by Aristotle, that people can understand both genesis and the predicament of moral modernity.”