I’m not trying to avoid the blog. In fact, I have half a dozen posts half-written. But I’m trying to keep too many plates spinning at once, and the blog is one that’s fallen and crashed.
But the blog is important, to me at least. So if you enjoy reading my ramblings, I apologize for my absence and ask your patience. I’ll finish a real post one of these days. Soon. I promise!
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Hello Robert,
Ever since I first heard about this project I have been intrigued. I looked up a contemporary definition to establish a framework as to what is virtue. Then I had to wonder “is virtue, in the ‘doing good easily and often’ practicable and important?”. Morality yes but virtue, I’m undecided. Can one use virtue to navigate the world as it exists? There are a lot of instances in business, social interactions, maintaining or improving ones place within a civilization in which a virtuous person would be vulnerable to all kinds of abuse, deception and repression. Is virtue a weakness?
Hey Paul,
You ask a great question! I’ll try to answer it in a full post soon, but I want to give a quick answer now.
Virtue is not a weakness, even though it appears to put you in a weak situation. The vulnerability a virtuous person suffers is at most a temporary matter, and usually is simply an illusion based on fear rather than on actual harm.
There’s a lot more to say, to see how that can be the case, but that’ll have to wait for the full post.
Meanwhile, thanks for asking!