Why Good Decisions Require Good Intentions
Teaching on Aristotle’s ‘Nichomachean Ethics,’ Dr. Larry Arnn says it’s our intentions about a choice that determine whether it is a good one.
A Long Life Of Good Character Comes From Our Everyday Decisions
‘There are obstacles, temptations and confusions that are in the way, but if you think about it and you keep your soul in order and your attitude right, then you will make better choices.’
Happiness Isn’t Just A Feeling. It Takes Work
Many associate happiness with wealth, prosperity, and pleasure. But Aristotle challenges humans to view happiness as an activity — striving to fulfill a purpose.
To Depolarize Our Politics, Aristotle Would Prescribe Some Virtue
A healthy political sphere relies on ethical, virtuous individuals who focus on their communities and not solely on themselves.
Did Aristotle Write The Original Self-Help Book?
What kind of ‘help’ are Americans seeking by spending $10 billion on self-help? According to Aristotle, humans simply want to know how to be happy, and how to be good.
For Americans To Have Freedom, They Must Revive The Common Good
Full human flourishing is communal, not individual. Political liberalism must recognize this inherent truth in order to succeed.
What Those Who Seek Socialism Really Need Is A Church And Family
Plato taught us, in imprecise terms, that the socialism we need is not that of a command economy, but that of family, church, and community.
Why Right And Wrong Are Just As Objective As Science
Just as the nature of a chair points toward an end (supporting you while you sit), so the nature of man also points toward an end. But what is that end?
Hawley: How American Elites Threaten Our Common Liberty
At The King’s College commencement, Hawley called out Wall Street and Silicon Valley for placing themselves above other Americans.
Jordan Peterson Is The Head Pastor Of First Church YouTube
He is brain porn for Christians disenchanted with the institutional church, when they should be working on their real-life churches instead.
No. 10 Is The Best Federalist Paper, And That’s Why The Left Hates It So Much
Progressives have a different purpose for government than securing citizens’ natural rights. They want to use the vast powers of government to change America.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Right That Morality Matters More Than Facts
Most people would agree that, in the grand scheme of things, dispensing accurate and precise figures matters little if your worldview is essentially immoral.
How Refusing To Judge Any Culture Completely Undermines Human Rights
When one fully embraces cultural relativism, human rights violations––like funeral pyres and child sex abuse––become very difficult to identify.
How Upending Its Hidden Assumptions Can Deepen Your Read Of Science Fiction
Which foundational ideas, assumptions, and seemingly-semantic debates mold how we interpret our world in relation to science and faith?
How The Bible Undermined The Concept Of Global Empires In Favor Of Nation-States
The Bible put a new political conception on the table: a state of a single nation that is united, self-governing, and uninterested in bringing its neighbors under its rule.
The Enlightenment Ideal Of Reason Has Absolutely Vindicated Itself
Enlightenment ideas have a long track record that shows the ideal of reason is not an illusion but a commonplace reality.
Why Reason Turned Into A Dead End For Enlightenment Philosophy
We are finite, contingent beings, and we must not presume that our reason is capable of transcending this to achieve a sort of God’s-eye view of reality.
Unfrozen Caveman Intellectual: Jonah Goldberg’s Strangely Dark Enlightenment
Jonah Goldberg’s defense of the legacy of the Enlightenment ends up being mostly a rehearsal of boilerplate 20th-century American conservatism.
Socialism’s Resurgence Is A Doomed Attempt To Address A Spiritual Problem With Politics
The concerns and anxieties that beset our culture will not be addressed only by reminders of material abundance provided by free market economics.
Steven Pinker Shows How To Defend The Enlightenment Without Really Trying
Steven Pinker makes a good case that something has been going right in the modern world, but you’re on your own if you want to define exactly what that is.
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