#Virtue

To understand the founding fathers you have to understand virtue. Today we view virtue as a type of behavior showing high moral standards Our founding fathers would not agree with
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In past two days, I have received thousand of feedbacks from Muslims around the world (pro & con) to my @nytopinion piece on #HagiaSophia. It all boils down to a
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Exodus 90 (and similar methods to help men grow in virtue) don't interfere with marital responsibilities. It's good to bring up the question, though, and to acknowledge the potential for
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WHY DO WESTERN WOMEN UNDERMINE WESTERN CIVILIZATION?1. Anglos converted to 100% middle class, seeking cheap success in democracy without paying the cost of maintaining our intellectual, social, economic, political advantage
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A reminder that Twitter is reality, but a louder version of reality that prioritizes the edges and extremes of whatever argument is discussed and tends to dull the middle. I
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Another even more premature judgement, don't take me seriously, honestly you might wanna skip this one tooI feel like virtue ethics, at least in my mind, has been damaged by
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For Marginally Compelling today, I started with an interview with @chrisvcsefalvay a data scientist & epidemiologist who has worked in pandemics before.If you're short on time, skip to 23:00 where
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Snakes and Ladders was originally an Indian morality game called Moksha Patam. The snakes stood for particular vices (e.g. Vanity/Lying/Drunkenness) , and the ladders for virtues (e.g. Faith/Generosity/Asceticism). It arrived
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James Ming Chen, After Agrarian Virtue, 53 Indiana Law Review 1-34 (2020). Available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=3449558. The rest of this thread reports the abstract.Fernando Amorsolo (1892-1972), Winnowing Rice (1946). Other paintings
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"It’s most commonly believed the line originated from the poem, Piers Plowman, said to have been written around 1360 by English poet William Langland, about a man in search of
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Mask debate aside- the fact that, in some circles, masks are being promoted as a fashion accessory, complete with huge price tags, whilst the poor become even more so, people
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Animal welfare #EA is motivated by virtue signalling but pretends to base itself in some objective measure of total +/- qualia. It is usually better to ground something in those
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I struggle with ethics and Marxism. The framework of virtue ethics makes the most sense when thinking about the values of a post-capitalist society, but it's impossible as a Marxist
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You HAVE to do this. White women don't do it enough, I absolutely agree. But white men don't do it AT ALL, and in fact nearly every time I've tried
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This is your daily reminder that you need to QUIT YOUR USELESS VIRTUE SIGNALING about yourself and stop voting for Democrats. The Democratic Party is now a VERY REAL AND
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If someone writes an article you disagree with, here is an option that a lot of you seem to have forgotten: read it, then have some thoughts about it. Then
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