...we should call a halt to the pursuit of moral and political 'transcendence' and 'devote ourselves to the construction of local forms of community within...the intellectual and moral life can be sustained'. 50 As for I.yotard, we have already noticed his use of the word 'terror' to characterise the idea of...

...draw attention (as Maclntyre sees it) to the need to ‘constnJct local forms of community in which the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us'.¿' At various points in this volume the importance of rhetoric for the health of a participatory democracy...

...for example, Hauerwas responds to Alasdair Maclntyre's doleful conclusion at the end of After Virtue: "What matters at this stage is the construction of...local forms of community within which civility and the moral life can be sustained through the dark ages which are already upon us." 91 Thus the axis of Hauerwas's...

...historical turning point, a new Dark Ages with the barbarians in power, once again the task becomes ‘the construction of local forms of community within...which civility and the intellectual and moral life may be sustained through the new Dark Ages that are already upon us.' And in these communities we are...

...epoch in which the Roman empire declined into the Dark Ages. Nonetheless certain parallels there are. ...What matters at this stage is the construction...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...

...surrounding darkness and barbarism. "We too have reached that turning point," he declares, and our task is "the construction of local forms of community within...through the new dark ages which are already upon us." In other words, the vast social achievement that has been designated by the term consolidation in these...

...fought only through participation in a certain kind of ethos: “What matters as this stage is she construction of local forms of community within which...through the new dark ages which are already upon us. And if she tradition of the virtues was able so survive she horrors of she last dark ages, we are not...

...of the public chupch. Madntyre, for example, appears to retreat into tribalism, writing that “whit matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community wit1¿n which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained thr4igh the new dark ages...

...of philosophical and cultural sectarianism, albeit with theological and ecclesiological undertones. “What matters at this stage is the construction...new dark ages which are already upon us” (p. 263). There are several reasons why Maclntyre's sectarian philosophical approach in his “choice” of Aristotle...

...Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory. 2d ed. (Notre Dame, lN: University of Notre Dame Press, 233 1984): "What matters at this stage is the construction of...through the new dark ages which are already upon us" (p. 245). For sharp criticism of this sentiment, but guarded use of its vocabulary, see Benjamin Barber,...