On MacIntyre's 'After Virtue'

No single person has contributed as much to the current revival of interest in the virtues as Alasdair MacIntyre. MacIntyre is an English philosopher who now teaches at Vanderbilt. Although trained and accomplished in the techniques of twentieth-century analytical philosophy, MacIntyre brings to his discussion of moral life a breadth of learning, particularly about the history and development of moral ideas, which allows him to break out of the somewhat narrow confines of contemporary moral philosophy.