What a book. It has to take its place amongst the best books I've read all year, perhaps even one of the best I've ever read. After Virtue rehearses the history of virtue from Homer to Aristotle through to those Moderns who rejected Aristotelianism and attempted to establish a justification for morality based upon reason alone, without dependence upon tradition or religious dogmatics. He demonstrates how the Enlightenment project was doomed to fail and asks where we are going to find the resources to live an ethical life in a world which has rejected tradition for rationality. His answer is that we cannot. Rationalism cannot save us. If we will not embrace tradition and virtue, as conceived by Aristotle, we are left with emotivism and Nietzsche. MacIntyre proceeds to show why emotivism also must fail and therefore is not a satisfactory alternative to rationalism.  Ethics must be conceived of in terms of teleological Aristotelianism. Insofar as I made my own move from Kantian to Aristotelian, even before I knew what those labels meant, I have to say I agree. But regardless of one's agreement or disagreement, MacIntyre has made his mark upon the ethical world. His concept of ethics, narrative, and practices are formative for such great thinkers as N.T. Wright, James K.A. Smith, Stanley Hauerwas, and others. MacIntyre is no breezy read, but the reward is worth it. May it bless the reader.