When After Virtue first appeared in 1981 it was recognized at once as an important and controversial re-evaluation of contemporary moral philosophy. It is now reprinted with a new final chapter in which Professor Macintyre responds to the central questions raised by the first edition, elaborating his position on the connection between philosophy and history, the issue of relativism, and the relation of moral philosophy to theology. In doing so, he upholds the claims of his main conclusions and demonstrates further the accountability of philosophy to the world and times it seeks to describes.