From the beginning of human time, all peoples have known that there is a battle going on, and they have talked about this in the only way they could, which is to say, mythologically. They have known that the forces of chaos threaten to subvert the forces of order, and that chaos must be resisted. Indeed, it is from this understanding of order versus chaos that we understand what morality is; for the forces of order are good, and the forces of chaos are evil and must be resisted.
There is no doubt about this. It is very clear. And so for contemporary philosophers (and past ones too) to pretend otherwise is a form of deceit, which is itself chaos-inducing and thus evil. As Theodore Dalrymple expressed it, “I suspect that intellectual error is at the root of most evil.”
