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Unless a person can give reasons, there is, literally, no reason why anyone else should take that person seriously. But without reasons, all we are le...more

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The future goal is the thing which produces character in the present.

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Part of the problem about authenticity is that virtues aren't the only things that are habit forming: the more someone behaves in a way that is damagi...more

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Financial crashes happen precisely because the people who remember the last one have either died or retired and thus are no longer around, with memori...more

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Successful resistance to temptation may result in an increase of moral muscle, but that is because one is going to need it. A temptation resisted may ...more

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Virtue is what happens when habitual choices have been wise.

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Virtue is what happens when someone has made a thousand small choices requiring effort and concentration to do something which is good and right, but ...more

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Author says writing about Jesus is difficult because it is like writing about a friend "who is still liable to surprise us.