After virtue a study in moral theory

By:

MacIntyre, Alasdair

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Notre Dame University of Notre Dame Press 2007Edition: 3rd edDescription: xix, 286 p. ; 23 cmISBN:

9780268035044

Subject(s):

Ethics

DDC classification:

170.42MAC

Summary: 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 Century.?

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-281) and index.

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 Century.?

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