 | Richard Bernstein - Philosophy - 1983 - 314 pages
...indeed 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."102 But despite Maclntyre's rightful skepticism about the very idea of a single universal... | |
 | E.E. Shelp - Medical - 1985 - 394 pages
...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... | |
 | Benjamin R. Barber - Philosophy - 1988 - 236 pages
...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...sustained 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,... | |
 | Robert A. Dahl - Political Science - 2008 - 414 pages
...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...sustained 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... | |
 | Ian Adams - Philosophy - 1989 - 192 pages
...constantly undermined by the dominant culture of liberal individualism. However, it is only through the: 'construction of local forms of community within...sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us' (p. 245), that there is hope that civilization might be rebuilt. It is the one small glimmer of... | |
 | Eric Dean - Religion - 1989 - 108 pages
...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...sustained 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... | |
 | Mahlon Brewster Smith - Psychology - 318 pages
...the ruined shell of the empire to sow the germs of moral community anew. Thus with us. too. he says: What matters at this stage is the construction of...sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us. ... This time. however. the barbarians are not waiting beyond the frontiers; they have already... | |
 | Piotr Buczkowski - Ideology - 1991 - 212 pages
...defeat" but as a life enhancing ethical and political stance. As Alisdair Maclntyre [1981] asserts "what matters at this stage is the construction of...local forms of community within which civility and moral life can be sustained" (p. 244). An isomorphism obviously exists between the advantages of retaining... | |
 | Ian Shapiro - Philosophy - 2023 - 356 pages
...re-invent is alien" to the population (ibid. : 238). In these circumstances we have to begin more modestly: What matters at this stage is the construction of...sustained 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... | |
 | Peter Higbie Van Ness - Religion - 1992 - 364 pages
...partial remedy is given with a familiar historical analogy that compounds the book's dispirited tone: What matters at this stage is the construction of...sustained 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... | |
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What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us. 
