loppear reviewed After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre
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3 stars
Does Aristotle need saving, and can he save modern society? Mostly clear writing, and quite cognizant of the rebuttals and responses his arguments bring up. The demand for historicism and critiques of 'emotivism' and of most modern analytical philosophies attempts at rationally justifying morality is well-sounded, though ultimately the prescribed return to a theory of virtues embedded in practice, institutional authority, and socially-connected human narratives is unconvincing as a solution to the incommensurability of modern plural societies' disagreements.