About this title: When "After Virtue" first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially controversial critique of contemporary moral philosophy. Newsweek called it "a stunning new study of ethics by one of the foremost moral philosophers in the English-speaking world." Since that time, the book has been translated into more than fifteen foreign languages and has sold over one hundred thousand copies. Now, twenty-five 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 ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Date Published: 1984-08-30
ISBN-13:9780268006112ISBN:0268006113
Description: Good. Mostly Pen Underlining and a Little Red Mark Underlining and a Little Marginalia on About 30% of the Book, No Remainder Mark, Creasing on Spine, Moderate Wear and Illustration on Cover has Been Traced with pen, Priority Shipping recommended for prompt delivery by USPS when offered, Delivery Confirmation on all domestic items where available. read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
ISBN-13:9780268006105ISBN:0268006105
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780268006105ISBN:0268006105
Description: Fair in good dust jacket. Hbk 252pp prev owner's inscn on fep dj shelf worn now in protective sleeve extensively annotated in ink but still has some value as a working copy. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, Ind.
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780268005948ISBN:026800594X
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. very minor notes, tight binding, cheap copy! postscript from 2nd edition laid in. ix, 252 p.; 24 cm. Includes index. Bibliography: p. [246]-248. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780268006112ISBN:0268006113
Description: As New. 0268006113. 1.2 x 8.9 x 6.3 Inches; 304 pages; "[I]t is something to have a book, devoted to certain quite central technical philosophical questions, which is likely to produce so passionate a response. " ?New York Review of Books "A remarkable synthesis...." ?Richar d Rorty "A stunning new study of ethics...." ?Newsweek "The best book of philosophy in years. " ?John Gardner "To call this a good book is to be patronizing; it is an important book, one that will have to be followed up or ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Univ. of Notre Dame Press
ISBN-13:9780268006112ISBN:0268006113
Description: After Virtue. By Alasdair MacIntyre, Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 1984, second edition. ISBN 0268006113. 286pgs, bibliography. Soft cover fine (un-read), 2 lbs. read more
Edition: 3 REV ED
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: GERALD DUCKWORTH & CO LTD Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780715636404ISBN:0715636405
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 320 pages. Drawing on more than 500 years of history, this title explores the causes of the crisis in moral description and shows how attempts to formulate moral principles had grown progressively more difficult in the period after the enlightenment. it explains what has driven moral philosophy into its quagmire and suggests ways out of it. edition 3 rev ed (Paperback) read more
Edition: Second Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, In, U. S. A.
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780268006112ISBN:0268006113
Description: Good. 0268006113. Contents are tight; 35 pages show ink underlining/notes. read more
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press, Bx621
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780268006105ISBN:0268006105
Description: Very Good in Good dust jacket. 0268006105. Hardcover. 8vo. University of Notre Dame Press. 1984. 286 pgs. First, thus. DJ in G shape with heavy sunning along the spine, closed tear present to the front panel of the DJ near the flap edge, chipping at the spine ends. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. Photos sent upon request. Bx621; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 286 pages. read more
Description: Very good; Collectible. 1981 University of Notre Dame Press hard cover 1st edition-minor wear to edge of dust jacket (now in mylar cover) minor dog ear-otherwise cover and binding fine contents clean-a nice collectible-enjoy. read more
Edition: FIRST EDITION
Binding: HARDCOVER
Publisher: UNIV OF NOTRE DAME PRESS, NOTRE DAME, IN
Date Published: PUB 1981
Description: NEAR FINE IN A VERY GOOD+ D.J. BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT BUT THERE WAS A BINDING ERROR THAT RESULTED IN SOME CREASING TO A FEW OF THE LEAVES. D.J. IS VERY NICE WITH THE USUAL COLOR FADE OF THE SPINE PANEL, LIGHT RUB TO THE CORNERS, AND A BIT OF SCATTERED RUB TO THE REAR PANEL. AN VERY NICE CLEAN AND TIGHT COPY. read more
Edition: SECOND EDITION
Binding: Soft Back
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press, NOTRE DAME, IN
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780268006112ISBN:0268006113
Description: Good. Ethics Books cover has some fading, slight creases and wear. Writing on fly-page. Underlining and markings on some pages. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, Indiana
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780268005948ISBN:026800594X
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. read more
"MacIntyre provides a strong critique of contemporary moral theory, dominated as it is by varieties of emotivism: There are no objective standards; moral values are subjective and relative. This is the first half of his book. As much as MacIntyre admires Aristotle, he cannot go back to Aristotle's "metaphysical biology." Aristotle's "classical" perspective was replaced with a variety of rationalistic moral theories (e.g., Kant) that Nietzsche accurately and powerfully in MacIntyre's view said were nothing but expressions of subjective will. MacIntyre then outlines his attempt to thread the needle and put moral theory back on track. This is the second half of his book and this is where he flat lines. After three attempts, MacIntyre's "after virtue" thesis remains obscure. It is also not clear why he dismisses Aristotle's biology as "metaphysical," which suggests that the biiological foundation for Aristotle's theory rests on thin air. Whether accurate or not in detail, Aristotle was on the right track in anchoring moral theory in biology. As biological beings, we seek survival and well being, which in varying degrees includes a personal need to love, a tribal need to belong, and a rational need to match up means with ends, including treating others as ends as the means to satisfy our own ends. Somehow this line of pursuit might provide the foundation for moral theory that MacIntyre seeks."
"Just read this for my political communication course. It posits that man's traditional concept of virtue and morals no longer exists. The concept of narrative extended in this book (then appropriated by Fisher later) is particularly insightful."
"An esoteric apology for moral philosophy in the post modern--we have either to grab our books and head for the caves to escape these new dark ages--or discover a new new Benedict. No one is or ever could be in charge--what were we thinking?"
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