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Since MacIntyre links the notion of a society structured for the satisfaction of consumers to Hume, it seems fitting to give an example of p...

Sometimes you read a passage, sometimes one you've read before, and suddenly a light bulb goes on. I had that experience reading the fol...

How Softly Death Walks How softly Death walks among infant pines; it is strange you do not notice him winding his way as wind whips around h...

* Sharon Howard has reposted her classic post, Women’s history/gender history: what and why? * Mike Liccione continues his musings on the Fi...

The counterpart to Jane Austen's preoccupation with the counterfeit is the central place she assigns to self-knowledge, a Christian rath...

The history of poetry in all countries, but particularly in France, registers a kind of oscillation between two poles, being diluted into pr...

Aquinas, of course, accepts the doctrine of the mean , at least for intellectual and moral virtues. Let's set the intellectual virtues a...