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Macintyre has led the charge for renewing the notion of virtue as the guide for moral living in contrast to what he considers the failed theories of emotivism, utilitarianism, intuitionism, and kantian reasoning, which he contends lack any external neutral standards to avoid being degraded to to relativism. He thinks Nietzche had it right in exposing the emptiness and contradictions of the liberal, enlightened moralities, but that Aristotle’s notion of virtue, as developed by Aquinas, is what we need to lead us to shared moral values.

Macintyre writes well for a philosopher. Some of the book is understandable without much background in philosophy, but a good deal of the book is dense and I found myself puzzled by what appeared to me to be lengthy detours from his central arguments.