| Prologue: After Virtue after a Quarter of a Century | | ix | |
| Preface | | xvii | |
| 1. A Disquieting Suggestion |
| | 1 | |
| 2. The Nature of Moral Disagreement Today and the Claims of Emotivism |
| | 6 | |
| 3. Emotivism: Social Content and Social Context |
| | 23 | |
| 4. The Predecessor Culture and the Enlightenment Project of Justifying Morality |
| | 36 | |
| 5. Why the Enlightenment Project of Justifying Morality Had to Fail |
| | 51 | |
| 6. Some Consequences of the Failure of the Enlightenment Project |
| | 62 | |
| 7. 'Fact', Explanation and Expertise |
| | 79 | |
| 8. The Character of Generalizations in Social Science and their Lack of Predictive Power |
| | 88 | |
| 9. Nietzsche or Aristotle? |
| | 109 | |
| 10. The Virtues of Heroic Societies | | 121 | |
| 11. The Virtues of Athens | | 131 | |
| 12. Aristotle's Account of the Virtues | | 146 | |
| 13. Medieval Aspects and Occasions | | 165 | |
| 14. The Nature of the Virtues | | 181 | |
| 15. The Virtues, the Unity of a Human Life and the Concept of a Tradition | | 204 | |
| 16. From the Virtues to Virtue and after Virtue | | 226 | |
| 17. Justice as a Virtue: Changing Conceptions | | 244 | |
| 18. After Virtue: Nietzsche or Aristotle, Trotsky and St. Benedict | | 256 | |
| 19. Postscript to the Second Edition | | 264 | |
| Bibliography | | 279 | |
| Index | | 283 | |