...that it had to fail—he himself appropriates the most vital theme of this project. He tells us that “what matters at this stage is the construction...civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained.¿i 0 S But despite Maclntyre's rightful skepticism about the very idea of a single universal...

...times. He ends his tightly reasoned treatise with a surprisingly romantic hope for "... a local form of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained in the rough new dark ages which are already upon us" ([19], p. 245). One can accept Maclntyre's astute...

...one might expect, Maclntyre is not altogether pessimistic that such hospitable contexts can be built. “What matters at this stage is the construction...local forms of community within which civility and intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us.”...

...some time now we too have reached that turning point. What matters at this stage is the contruction of local forms of community within which civility...through the new dark ages which are already upon us. And if the tradition of the virtues was able to survive the horrors of the last dark ages, we are not...

...civilization. What in fact is to be done? Maclntyre's only piece of explicit political counsel is this: "What matters at this stage is the construction of...through the new dark ages which are already upon us" (AV, 245). What he can possibly mean in an era of multinational corporations, economic interdependence,...

...tasks of civic reconstruction and moral renewal. "What matters at this stage," Maclntyre concludes, "is the construction of local forms of community within...through the new dark ages which are already upon us." 6 These contemporary studies in communitarian thought directly recall the Young Americans' early critique...

...condition is correct, we ought to conclude that for some time now we too have reached that turning point. What matters at this stage is the construction of...through the new dark ages which are already upon us. And if the tradition of the virtues was able to survive the horrors of the last dark ages, we are not...

...is correct, we ought also to conclude that for some time now we too have reached that turning point. What matters at this stage is the construction of...through the new dark ages which are already upon us. (263) But what these new forms of community might be, and how they are to come about, he does not reveal....

...263, by noting that in many respects there are parallels between our society and the decline of Rome. "What matters at this stage is the construction of...through the new dark ages which are already upon us. And if the tradition of the virtues was able to survive the horrors of the last dark ages, we are not...

...defeat” but as a life enhancing ethical and political stance. As Alisdair Maclntyre [1981] asserts “what matters at this stage is the construction...local forms of community within which civility and moral life can be sustained” (p. 244). An isomorphism obviously exists between the advantages of...