To the question, “What is virtue?,” an old answer is that it is knowledge of things good for you and things bad for you. This is the answer Socrates gave and it remains, in the words of Alan Ladd’s...
Virtue, understood properly, is the chief end of education. But since it is seldom understood properly, perhaps one should say virtue, piety, wisdom, and grace are the ends of education. Virtue is ...
When Socrates was confronted by the first multiple choice test, which compelled him to tell whether virtue could be A. taught, B. acquired through practice, C. given by nature, or D. gained by some...
Whereas classical education promotes the traditional seven virtues of courage, wisdom, self-control, justice, faith, hope, and love, secular progressive schools tend to focus on such fashionable va...
I’ve been talking to my longtime friend who teaches at Shalem, a college in Jerusalem grounded in the defining ideas of the Western and Jewish traditions. I’ve wanted to understand better how the v...
When it comes to “virtue,” there shouldn’t be much mystery or confusion. The word “virtue” comes from the Latin virtus, which translates the more interesting Greek word arete, meaning “excellence.”...
