After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory

Why this matters here

MacIntyre’s After Virtue argues that virtues are intelligible inside social practices and narrative traditions that make excellence and shared standards possible. How Trust Forms draws that communal recognition into a pre-formal leadership pattern: under uncertainty, people repeatedly seek those whose actions have proven dependable. The source is a moral-philosophical account of practices and virtue; the book asks how trust concentrates attention into legitimacy before titles arrive.