"[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.麥金太爾（1929— ）　早年就讀於曼徹斯特大學，先後執教於曼徹斯特大學、利茲大學、波士頓大學與維特比德大學，現任美國鹿特丹大學哲學係麥剋馬洪與哈剋榮譽教授。麥金太爾是當代西方最重要的倫理學傢之一，倫理學與政治哲學中社群主義運動的代錶人物。從二十世紀五十年代起，麥金太爾以其大量的著作，對摩爾以來的元倫理學進行瞭不懈的攻擊。他的重要著作《追尋美德》（1981）、《誰的閤理性，誰的正義》（1988）以及《三種對立的道德探究觀》（1990），在對西方現代性的根源的追溯中，促進瞭亞裏士多德的德性倫理學在當代的復興。