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© The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Scots Philosophical Association and the University of St Andrews. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: [email protected] many respects, Alasdair MacIntyre's latest book can be read as an updated version of his most influential work, After Virtue, which was published 35 years earlier. It thus provides an opportunity to take stock of what has remained constant in his philosophical project since then and also of where his thought has developed.In After Virtue, MacIntyre argued that the ‘Enlightenment project’ of seeking to provide a justification for morality apart from a shared teleological worldview failed to secure rational agreement and subsequently led to an ‘emotivist culture’ in which the appearance of rational argument masks what is in fact attempts to manipulate others in the service of arbitrary preferences. In Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity...