For those of you still interested in further reading (if any!), here is a paper arguing that virtue ethics may in fact be impossible and yet...

Now you know what has to be done.  But here, then, also this: And, therefore, one more. 

My wife appealed for a non-turkey feast this year, and of course I am usually easy for her to convince. We did Roast Beast instead, and in f...

The last chapter of the last book is upon us, and it's a very long one for Aristotle.  If these matters and the virtues, and also frien...

In the penultimate chapter of the ultimate book , Aristotle considers the claim of the vita activa that I was defending in the commentary o...

Hard cases make bad law , as we know. So too laws that are designed to protect "young women" rather than for the general purpose o...

Just as we had to go slow when we were starting, because so many unfamiliar concepts were being deployed that we needed to map down, at this...

We can now begin the final assault on the EN's slopes.  Now that we have spoken of the virtues, the forms of friendship, and the variet...

So, one of the nice things about last week's trip was the opportunity to meet our friend Mr. Foster for the first time in person. He bro...

It might seem strange that after six days’ travel I’d want to get out on the road, but it’s a very different sort of road.  Licklog Gap is a...

So the home where the strategic planning session was had, of all things, an El Camino SS parked in the driveway. I asked who it belonged to;...

In my last full day in the National Capital Region, I’m helping to run a strategic planning session in Georgetown. I don’t usually get over ...

The ground here was carefully chosen; it is sometimes in fact a legal requirement that soldiers etc. refuse to obey unlawful orders. It’s no...

“Dark humor is like food under Communism: Not everyone gets it.” Also like Communism, it sounds promising… …but turns out to be deeply disa...

I’ll be back in DC from tomorrow until Saturday morning. David Foster and I will be meeting for lunch; if any of the rest of you are in town...

We finally made some headway in the child custody case I'm helping a neighbor with. We were experiencing unexpected difficulty getting t...

One last chapter on pleasure, then we close out the EN with a discussion of happiness. For this reason pleasures seem, too, to differ in ki...

These chapters on pleasure are significantly longer than most of what we've seen earlier in the book.  What pleasure is, or what kind of...