Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the most innovative and popular philosophers of our time. At the center of his critically engaged moral philosophy is the question of how we should live today. In his equally brilliant and provocative main work "After Virtue" (1981), he interprets the aporias of contemporary discussions about morality as expressions of a catastrophic crisis. He attributes our time's inability to resolve central moral issues (such as abortion or war) by consensus to the failure of the Enlightenment and outlines, drawing on ancient thought, the perspective of a new virtue ethics rooted in local communities.