...After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, 2d ed. (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 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,...

...Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, 2d ed. (Notre Dame, IN: 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,...

...must foster if we are to return to any semblance of a moral life. “What matters at this stage are the construction of local forms of community within...through the new dark ages which are already upon us” (1984: 263). While it is Maclntyre and Sandel who advance the most comprehensive critiques of liberalism,...

...humanity, in Maclntyre's opinion, lies in 'the construction of local forms of community within which the moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us'. 105 A new monasticism, for such it is, seems a poor sort of programme to be offered by an author whose...

...humanity, in Maclntyre's opinion, lies in 'the construction of local forms of community within which the moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us'. 105 A new monasticism, for such it is, seems a poor sort of programme to be offered by an author whose...

...alternative modes of socialization and identity formation to counter the destructive impulses of liberalism. 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. And if the tradition of the virtues was able to survive the horrors of the last dark ages, we are not...

...is indispensable to our moral existence, to the formation of character, to the existence of virtues. 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...

...background, the end of Maclntyre's After Virtue, where he calls for the creation of small communities 'within which civility and the intellectual and moral...through the new dark ages which are already upon us' (Maclntyre, 1985: 263), takes on a new and revealing significance. We can read this as an unwitting...

...conceptual framework, there is an essential practicalsocial dimension to any adequate solution, since “What matters at this stage is the construction...the new dark ages which are already upon us” (p. 245). Still, important though the practical formation of conmsunities is, at the theoretical level...