From the book
To my mind the most striking development in ethical theory since the 1970s has been an attempt to reactivate the Platonic-Aristotelian ethical tradition and to provide an updated account of its leading idea--namely, that moral virtue is the outcome of a successful process of formation...The notion of form can be replaced by that of order, the kind of order that we try to impose on our own behavior insofar as we take ourselves to be answerable to norms of correctness, and this change of perspective can open up our conception of the virtuous person to the influence of modern discussions about norm-governed practices, thus helping us to a more complete acceptance of the phenomenon of morality as "part of our natural history.