Alasdair MacIntyre Virtue Ethics

Modern Aristotelian virtue ethicist
Believes modern day world are lacking virtues.
3 characters have arison as a result of this and he thinks most people are at least a version of these:
The rich aesthete: continuously searching for bigger and greater pleasures
Bureaucratic manager: focused on achieving the 'end' by whatever means necessary
The Therapist: those who essentially 'massage' the egos of the others, keeping everything ticking over.
MacIntyre's belief that virtues are needed to keep communities/societies running.
Can generally see features of a community in the individuals of that community.
Practices and traditions within human communities depend on the virtues and it is his belief that they fall apart…

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