Tradition in the Ethics of Alasdair MacIntyre presents a stimulating intellectual history and expertly reasoned defense of this towering figure in contemporary American philosophy. Drawing on interviews and published works Christopher Lutz traces MacIntyre s philosophical development and refutes the criticisms of the major thinkers—including Martha Nussbaum and Thomas Nagel—who have most vocally attacked him. Permanently shifting the debate on MacIntyre s oeuvre Lutz convincingly demonstrates how MacIntyre s neo-Aristotelian ethical thought provides an essential corrective to the contemporary discussions of relativism and ideology while successfully drawing on the objectivity of Thomistic natural law.