As we rest over the weekend after considering Aristotle's remarks on bad habits and character , a song celebrating how they can tie us t...

My husband got a routine MRI this week and reported considerable annoyance at the number of times he was forced to answer the same questions...

 

Playing around with a pistol with bad trigger discipline makes me very uncomfortable, but the song isn't awful. I was wondering if the t...

A very significant release by DNI Tulsi Gabbard . In a way it’s nothing we didn’t know; but in another way, it’s a whole set of new evidence...

Courage is the model virtue, not because Aristotle thinks it is the most important but because it is a particularly clear example. He has a ...

It's a mark of how big the problem is that $9 Billion is a drop in the bucket , but it's at least one drop in the right direction. T...

Foreign Policy argues that the current President is pursuing a "Jacksonian" foreign policy . Jacksonians focus inward, taking a p...

 

A late but worthy entry into our discussion of that subject.

Continuing from yesterday , we are talking about the vices of the soul. Unlike Socrates' argument that no one does themselves harm volun...

I have a really hard time taking Tucker Carlson seriously , to say nothing of Candace Owens. However, I've met Dr. Heinrichs profession...

Matt Bai, who wrote a book about the debates on reforming the Democratic Party during the early Obama era, has some thoughts on what needs ...

Today's problem is whether or not people can be voluntarily wicked or involuntarily happy. This problem bothered Plato (and, apparently...

We did one today already, but chapter four is very short . That wish is for the end has already been stated; some think it is for the good, ...

 

Do we deliberate about everything, and is everything a possible subject of deliberation, or is deliberation impossible about some things? W...

 

The WaPo has a point  this time. It's probably behind a paywall, so I'll quote the relevant part here. The campus protest law actual...

In the next chapter of Book III , Aristotle moves on to that which is chosen. The word being used is prohairesis , which can be translated e...