This article is an analytical report on Alsdir Mc Intire's After Virtue, and above all his critique of the criticism of modernism and Western ethical thought.
Mc Intire, a contemporary British ethics philosopher, has a profound effect on the philosophies of ethics and politics.
This critique is influential for its methodology and content. Methodologically' the abstractness, prejudice, and incompletions of current method in studying ethical concepts and ideas are criticized. He holds that the ethics philosopher should take into account historicaland anthropological facts his study of ethical concepts. Contentwise, the percepts brought up in the book had deep effects in making new movements in the philosophy of ethics. This indeed means a return to Aristotelian view of , ethics. Modern ethics philosophers emphasize on in "what to do?"while the traditional thought take "What should be? "focus.
The neglect of the social and historical aim of the man has brought vagueness to language and ethical life. Contemporary ethics discussions regard ethicals as private and abstract; they still issue ethical claims in such a way as if they are based on concrete criteria.
Any school in the philosophy of ethics requires some type of sociology for the philosophy of ethics concerns the doer and relations as well as those of motives and reasons. It looks to what there is (are) in the society, both potentially and actively. To understand the claims of any school of ethics one has to consider its social manifestations.
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