"[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 . . . ." —Richard 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 answered. It may be a great one, as are all turning points in a tide of drama whose protagonists have thought their courses inexorable." —Choice, February 1982

When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized at once as a significant and potentially controversial critique of contemporary moral philosophy. Now, in a new chapter, Alasdair MacIntyre responds to the questions and considerations raised by the many admirers and critics who made After Virtue such a widely read and discussed work of philosophy. Taking into account the dialogue generated by his book over the past three years, he elaborates his position on the relationship of philosophy to history, the virtues and the issue of relativism, and the relationship of moral philosophy to theology. In doing so, MacIntyre sustains the claims of his central conclusions to rational justification and demonstrates further the accountability of philosophy to the world and times it seeks to describe.

A.麦金太尔（1929— ）　早年就读于曼彻斯特大学，先后执教于曼彻斯特大学、利兹大学、波士顿大学与维特比德大学，现任美国鹿特丹大学哲学系麦克马洪与哈克荣誉教授。麦金太尔是当代西方最重要的伦理学家之一，伦理学与政治哲学中社群主义运动的代表人物。从二十世纪五十年代起，麦金太尔以其大量的著作，对摩尔以来的元伦理学进行了不懈的攻击。他的重要著作《追寻美德》（1981）、《谁的合理性，谁的正义》（1988）以及《三种对立的道德探究观》（1990），在对西方现代性的根源的追溯中，促进了亚里士多德的德性伦理学在当代的复兴。