Prologue: After Virtue after a Quarter of a Century ix
Preface xvii
1. A Disquieting Suggestion 1
2. The Nature of Moral Disagreement Today
and the Claims of Emotivism 6
3. Emotivism: Social Content and Social Context 23
4. The Predecessor Culture and the
Enlightenment Project of Justifying Morality 36
5. Why the Enlightenment Project
of Justifying Morality Had to Fail 51
6. Some Consequences of the Failure
of the Enlightenment Project 62
7. 'Fact', Explanation and Expertise 79
8. The Character of Generalizations in Social Science
and their Lack of Predictive Power 88
9. Nietzsche or Aristotle? 109
10. The Virtues of Heroic Societies 121
11. The Virtues of Athens 131
12. Aristotle's Account of the Virtues 146
13. Medieval Aspects and Occasions 165
14. The Nature of the Virtues 181
15. The Virtues, the Unity of a Human Life
and the Concept of a Tradition 204
16. From the Virtues to Virtue and after Virtue 226
17. Justice as a Virtue: Changing Conceptions 244
18. After Virtue: Nietzsche or Aristotle,
Trotsky and St. Benedict 256
19. Postscript to the Second Edition 264
Bibliography 279
Index 283