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Augustine's Barbarians or Ours?

We are at a point in history comparable to the one occupied by Augustine. ... The classical vision had lost its power over people's minds, and society was disintegrating. ... Alasdair MacIntyre, who invokes the memory of that moment to illuminate our situation, adds, however, that there is one great difference between Augustine's time and ours: then the barbarians were waiting outside the gates, but now they are already in the seats of power.

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