10 must-read history books like After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre

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After Virtue

By: Alasdair MacIntyre

4.18

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially contro…

"All power tends to coopt, and absolute power coopts absolutely."

-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue

"All power tends to coopt, and absolute power coopts absolutely."

-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue

"At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given."

-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue

"At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given."

-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue

If you liked the history plot in After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. I and Thou

By: Martin Buber , Walter Kaufmann

4.07

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover for this isbn can be found here. Martin Buber's I and Thou has long been accl… read more

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  • classics
  • theology
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"All real living is meeting."

-Martin Buber, I and Thou

"Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity."

-Martin Buber, I and Thou

"True beings are lived in the present, the life of objects is lived in the past."

-Martin Buber, I and Thou

"Feelings one "has"; love occurs. Feelings dwell in man, but man dwells in his love."

-Martin Buber, I and Thou

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2. Reflections on the Revolution in France

By: Edmund Burke , L.G. Mitchell

3.55

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

This new and up-to-date edition of a book that has been central to political philosophy, history, a… read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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3. The Everlasting Man

By: G.K. Chesterton

4.16

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

What, if anything, is it that makes the human uniquely human? This, in part, is the question that G… read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"Men are moved most by their religion; especially when it is irreligion."

-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

"Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song."

-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

"A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."

-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

"The boldest plans for the future invoke the authority of the past; and that even a revolutionary seeks to satisfy himself that he is also a reactionary."

-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

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4. Confessions

By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more

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  • classics
  • christian
  • theology
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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5. I See Satan Fall Like Lightning

By: René Girard , James G. Williams

3.50

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

Rene Girard holds up the gospels as mirrors that reveal our broken humanity, and shows that they al… read more

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  • theology
  • christianity
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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6. God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics

By: C.S. Lewis , Walter Hooper

3.69

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

"Lewis struck me as the most thoroughly converted man I ever met," observes Walter Hooper in the pr… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction

7. On the Incarnation

By: C.S. Lewis , Athanasius of Alexandria , None

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

A universally acknowledged masterpiece of fourth-century patristic theology. As C. S. Lewis observe… read more

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8. Metaphysics

By: Aristotle , Joe Sachs

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Metaphysics (Greek: ta meta ta phusika) is one of the principal works of Aristotle & the first majo… read more

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9. The Crisis of the Modern World

By: René Guénon , None , None

4.75

Format: 2112 pages, Paperback

The very title of the present volume calls for some initial explanation, if what it means is to be … read more

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10. After Virtue

By: Alasdair MacIntyre

4.18

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially contro… read more

Similar categories in Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue book and Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue

  • cultural
  • classics
  • history
  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"All power tends to coopt, and absolute power coopts absolutely."

-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue

"At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given."

-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue

"The introduction of the word ‘intuition’ by a moral philosopher is always a signal that something has gone badly wrong with an argument."

-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue

"To treat someone else as an end [as opposed to a mean] is to offer them what I take to be good reasons for acting in one way rather than another, but to leave it to them to evaluate those reasons."

-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue

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11. The Nicomachean Ethics

By: Aristotle , Jonathan Barnes , None , Hugh Tredennick

3.99

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brie… read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Philosophy can make people sick."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"A man without regrets cannot be cured."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

12. The Abolition of Man

By: C.S. Lewis

3.97

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Alternative cover for ISBN: 978-0060652944 The Abolition of Man, Lewis uses his graceful prose, del… read more

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13. The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View

By: Ellen Meiksins Wood

3.44

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

Capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor is it simply an extensi… read more

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14. A Theory of Justice

By: John Rawls , None

4.46

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Since it appeared in 1971, John Rawls's A Theory of Justice has become a classic. The author has no… read more

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15. A Secular Age

By: Charles Margrave Taylor

3.64

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Almost everyone would agree that the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly over… read more

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16. The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality

By: William Egginton

4.28

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe—the nature of … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
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17. The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution

By: Carl R. Trueman

4.57

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Modern culture is obsessed with identity. Since the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court … read more

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  • cultural
  • christian
  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"[I]n the work of the New Left one finds philosophical justification for what are now intuitive commonplaces of our culture: to be free is to be sexually liberated; to be happy is to be affirmed in th…"

-Carl R. Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution

"The expressive individual is now the sexually expressive individual. And education and socialization are to be marked not by the cultivation of traditional sexual interdicts and taboos but rather by …"

-Carl R. Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution

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18. The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations

By: Christopher Lasch

3.98

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

When The Culture of Narcissism was first published in 1979, Christopher Lasch was hailed as a “bibl… read more

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  • history
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"Since “the society"

-Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations

"We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves."

-Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations

"Imprisoned in his self-awareness modern man longs for the lost innocence of spontaneous feeling."

-Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations

"When the images of power overshadow the reality, those without power find themselves fighting phantoms."

-Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations

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19. Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West

By: Andrew Wilson

4.51

Format: 473 pages, Kindle Edition

How 7 Transformational Events in 1776 Paved the Way for Today’s Post-Christian West With dizzyin… read more

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  • cultural
  • christian
  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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20. The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis

By: Karen Swallow Prior

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Contemporary American evangelicalism is suffering from an identity crisis--and a lot of bad press. … read more

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  • christian
  • history
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  • politics
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  • nonfiction
"For Hardy and other critics of the evangelical movement, too often the desire for purity encouraged hypocrisy, earnest ideals became mere performance, and the valuation of hard work turned into pursu…"

-Karen Swallow Prior, The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis

"The novel [ Pamela ] is also a very powerful early expression of the modern self, one who sees her soul as equal in human worth and dignity to anyone, regardless of social class or power--and this, t…"

-Karen Swallow Prior, The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis

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21. Why Liberalism Failed

By: Patrick J. Deneen

3.86

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Has liberalism failed because it has succeeded? Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth c… read more

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  • cultural
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  • politics
  • philosophy
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"Individualism and statism advance together, always mutually supportive, and always at the expense of lived and vital relations that stand in contrast to both the starkness of the autonomous individua…"

-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed

"Rather than promoting unrealistic standards for behavior - especially self-limitation - that could at best be unreliably achieved, Machiavelli propsed grounding a political philosophy upon readily ob…"

-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed

"One of the main goals of the expansion of commerce is the liberation of embedded individuals from their traditional ties and relationships. The liberal state serves not only the reactive function of …"

-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed

"A main agent of that liberation becomes commerce, the expansion of opportunities and materials by which not only to realize existing desires but even to create new ones we did not know we had. The st…"

-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed

6 must-read classics books like After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre

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I and Thou

Martin Buber , Walter Kaufmann

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Reflections on the Revolution in France

Edmund Burke , L.G. Mitchell

3.55

Transform Your Habits

The Everlasting Man

G.K. Chesterton

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Confessions

Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler

3.41

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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Annie Dillard

4.08

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The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures

Jean Baudrillard , Chris Turner , George Ritzer

4.12

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Fear and Trembling

Søren Kierkegaard , Alastair Hannay

4.75

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G.K. Chesterton

4.16

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