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Since that time, the book has been translated into more than. Macintyre spends the first 30% of the book to elaborate on how the enlightenment laid the foundation for philosophical schools on moralism that evolved into the nihilism of friedrich nietsche. Virtue ethics now flourishes in philosophy, sociology and. In this paper i aim to go some way towards developing a version of.
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