What our laws show is the extent and degree to which conflict has to be suppressed.
Alasdair MacIntyreCharles II once invited the members of the Royal Society to explain to him why a dead fish weighs more than the same fish alive; a number of subtle explanations were offered to him. He then pointed out that it does not.
Alasdair MacIntyreTraditions, when vital, embody continuities of conflict. Indeed when a tradition becomes Burkean, it is always dying or dead.
Alasdair MacIntyreThe attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture
Alasdair MacIntyreWhat 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. And if the tradition of the virtues was able to survive the horrors of the last dark ages, we are not entirely without ground for hope. This time however the barbarians are not waiting beyond the frontiers; they have already been governing us for quite some time.
Alasdair MacIntyre