“Joy at the means to one’s own good is simply joy at one’s own good, just as distress at the destruction of material goods...

Adam Davidson describes the “Passion Economy” in a book released in 2020. Davidson claims that we are moving toward a new economy, centred around...

[Revised entry by Richard Kraut on July 2, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Aristotle conceives of ethical theory as a field distinct from...

[Revised entry by Robin S. Dillon on July 2, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Respect has great importance in everyday life. As children...

To be sure, he was cool. With an olive complexion, a dark pompadour, and the dark eyes and sagging jowls of Humphrey Bogart, Albert...

“It is not enough to prove something, one has also to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge...

[Revised entry by Fred Miller on July 1, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, supplement1.html] Aristotle (b. 384 – d. 322 BCE), was a...

Ottessa Moshfegh “has dedicated her career to writing about assholes: cruel, pathetic people who do cruel, pathetic things”   Originally appeared on Arts & Letters...

If any one book can explain America’s illusions about itself, it is Gone With the Wind. Or so says Sarah Churchwell  Originally appeared on...

Harold Rosenberg was a harsh critic, especially of himself. Intellectual independence demanded scrutiny of his own “decayed absolutes” Originally appeared on Arts & Letters...

“All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling the desires...

“Philosophy is ever pushed aside to make room for the daily needs. Only those think who are unable to trouble about self-preservation, or who...