Depressing news seem to surround us each day. Deaths from COVID-19. Hospitals unable to cope with new patients. Economic uncertainty and skyrocketing unemployment. Amidst suffering and challenge, it ...

Virtues 101 is not a new series but a fresh look at integrity and what it means in contemporary society. An appreciation of virtue’s formidable history can highlight its importance in allowing the ...

Throughout the first 12 years of my time teaching moral theology at Benedictine College, students would occasionally ask whether or not they had to follow a law that they believed to be unjust. When ...

In Book 2 of his Ethics (c. 330 BCE), Aristotle argues that moral virtues are developed by habit. Unlike sight and hearing, which are given to us at birth, virtue is not in our nature. But neither is ...

There are costs to living a virtuous life; It requires going without. This is true psychologically, because sacrifice gives virtue meaning. But it's also true mathematically. You pay a price when you ...

MB. HAVELOCK ELLIS began writing books more than thirty years ago, and some of his books might be described as milestones on the way to a more scientific and therefore a saner outlook upon certain ...