CS Lewis on charity

Some people nowadays say that charity ought to be unnecessary and that instead of giving to the poor we ought to be producing a society in which there were no poor to give to. They may be quite right in saying that we ought to produce this kind of society. But if anyone thinks that, as a…

‘So you’ve been publicly shamed’

Quotes below are from “So you’ve been publicly shamed” by Jon Ronson. The book is insightful, funny, and entertaining throughout.

A life had been ruined. What was it for: just some social media drama? I think our natural disposition as humans is…

Aztec virtue ethics

At its core, Aztec virtue ethics has three main elements. One is a conception of the good life as the ‘rooted’ or worthwhile life. Second is the idea of right action as the mean or middle way. Third and final is the belief that virtue is a quality that’s fostered socially.

A federation of free states

In “Perpetual Peace,” Kant envisioned a “federation of free states” that would fall well short of an international Leviathan. It would be a gradually expanding club of liberal republics rather than a global megagovernment, and it would rely on the soft power of moral legitimacy…