Abstract

Within the past two decades Alasdair MacIntyre has emerged as one of the most important moral philosophers in the English-speaking world. Through a series of works, After Virtue, Whose Justice, Which Rationality?, First Principles, Final Ends and Contemporary Philosophical Issues, and Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry, he has brought moral discourse back to earth from an abstract, idealized realm in which philosophers limited themselves to the analysis of language and formal arguments or invented imaginary situations which presumably gave direction to affairs in the real world.