A major work in modern moral philosophy, originally published in 1981 and reissued in an expanded third edition in 2007

After Virtue argues that modern moral debate has become fragmented and incoherent because society has lost the shared moral frameworks that once gave ethical concepts meaning. MacIntyre traces this breakdown through the Enlightenment, utilitarianism, emotivism, and liberal individualism, and proposes a return to an Aristotelian virtue‑based tradition as the remedy