“The modern world, obsessed with liberty, has slain virtue, leaving us morally bereft, in a world of darkness. With modernity came an impulse to liberate the individual from ‘external morality’ and to replace it with an inner moral voice. Each moral agent now spoke unrestrained by the externalities of divine law, natural teleology or hierarchical authority, but why would anyone else now listen to him?” Alisdair MacIntyre ‘After Virtue’