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Name: After virtue
Author: Alasdair C. MacIntyre

Discusses the nature of moral disagreement, Nietzsche, Aristotle, heroic societies, and the virtue of justice. In a new chapter, MacIntyre 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.

First publish date: 1981

Authors: Alasdair C. MacIntyre

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