Alasdair MacIntyre 
After Virtue [PDF ebook] 

Highly controversial when it was first published in 1981, Alasdair Mac Intyre’s After Virtue has since established itself as a landmark work in contemporary moral philosophy. In this book, Mac Intyre sought to address a crisis in moral language that he traced back to a European Enlightenment that had made the formulation of moral principles increasingly difficult. In the search for a way out of this impasse, Mac Intyre returns to an earlier strand of ethical thinking, that of Aristotle, who emphasised the importance of ’virtue’ to the ethical life. More than thirty years after its original publication, After Virtue remains a work that is impossible to ignore for anyone interested in our understanding of ethics and morality today.