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Posted on April 18, 2017April 18, 2017

Hannah LeGrand (and Dante) on sloth, thoughtlessness, intellect and reason 

At Comment Magazine, an essay by Hannah LeGrand on “thoughtlessness, sloth, and the call to think.” It is well worth reading and reflecting on. LeGrand begins with Hannah Arendt’s famous account…

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Posted on July 3, 2016July 3, 2016

On Sophocles and conflicting virtues: from “After Virtue” by Alasdair MacIntyre

The ancestor of one of these sets of answers is Plato, for whom as we have seen the virtues are not merely compatible with each other, but the presence of…

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