After Virtue’s stunning opening chapter decried the Enlightenment’s doomed attempt to ground morality in reason alone, which in turn had led modernity to unmoor itself from the moral grammar of the past and to cast itself adrift in confused conceptions of ethics as calculations of utility or expressions of fleeting subjective preference. In response, MacIntyre called for a return to virtue ethics that grounded normativity in narrative, for — as he once famously put it — “I can only answer the question ‘What am I to do?’ if I can answer the prior question ‘Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?’”