Daily Archives: July 26, 2009

Stoics on the Unity of Virtue

Frederick Copleston, A History of Philosophy, Volume I: Greece and Rome (Westminster: Newman, 1959) 398. Copleston summarizes the Stoic view of virtue: If all the virtues are so bound up with one another that he who possesses the one must … Continue reading

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Obama-Care: Bucking the Special Interests?

The first half of Friday’s Bill Moyer’s Journal was about health care, a topic that’s often crossed my mind this past week. Here is the transcript for that episode. Moyers was interviewing journalist Trudy Lieberman along with physician and Harvard … Continue reading

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