… the range of practices is wide: arts, sciences, games, politics in the Aristotelian sense, the making and sustaining of family life, all fall under… Read More »Alasdair MacIntyre on virtue and practices (2): Internal and external goods
In the Homeric account of the virtues — and in heroic societies more generally — the exercise of a virtue exhibits qualities which are required… Read More »Alasdair MacIntyre on virtue and practices (1): What is a practice?
Our lives together – in homes, at work, in social spaces and on the street; in government; wherever two or more of us meet –… Read More »The giving of strength; or, Community
Social agreeableness – being able to get along with other people, being “low friction” – is a sort-of-virtue. It’s a helpful enabler of community and… Read More »Agreeableness and amiability
Cardinal, from the Latin cardo, meaning “hinge”, because these are (according to Aristotle and others) the virtues (arete or “excellences”) on which a good life… Read More »Aristotle’s cardinal virtues
On a GreaterAnglia train service delayed by lightning damage to signalling equipment, the following announcement: “Because this service has been delayed by longer than fifteen… Read More »Delay? Repay
Different Choose well. See also: Champion, or Ways to Win (1)Champion (2)World without ends (on infinite games)Samo Burja: Live and Dead PlayersC. Thi Nguyen: Games,… Read More »Different leagues
Friar Francis: … to strange sores strangely they strain the cure. Come, lady, die to live: this wedding-day Perhaps is but prolong’d: have patience and… Read More »Cross purposes
If your league sits somewhere on a long ladder of leagues – leagues defined by playing the same game better or worse than all the… Read More »A different league
What are you doing to improve your taste? I’m sure you have your own ideas, but here’s what I’ve been thinking about: to educate your… Read More »The skill – taste gap: educating taste