Month: December 2014

• December 8, 2014

  Socratic Moral perfection and the Unity of Virtue

  One can start to make heads and tails of Socrates’s discussion of the unity of virtue with Protagoras once one introduces the concept of moral perfection. Written in 1969, John Passmore’s book, The Perfectibility of Man, remains a touchstone on this subject. Moral perfection, which is but one kind of perfection and which is not to be confused…
• December 5, 2014

  Virtue’s supremacy and its directiveness: Reflections on Vlastos’s Socrates

  In Socrates’s moral philosophy, what is the right relationship between virtue and human flourishing? In Gregory Vlastos’s view, wherein he defends the Sufficiency Thesis, there are four components: 1. Human flourishing is the final end, that for the sake of which all else is done. All action aims ultimately at human flourishing. 2. Virtue reigns supreme…
• December 2, 2014

  What is work?

  The first principle of all action is leisure. Both are required, but leisure is better than occupation and is its end; and therefore the question must be asked, what ought we to do when at leisure? –Aristotle, Politics [Under capitalism,] one does not work to live; one lives to work. –Max Weber Transvaluation of Values:…
• December 1, 2014

  Re-bundling Content: $10 Entire Ebook Collection

  Re-bundling: The Very Possibility Since the emergence of the Internet Age, the general trend has been to unbundle content (newspapers and print magazines etherized and anatomized into articles, albums cut into 99 cent singles), to make content available via search, and for aggregation sites to skim advertising profits and other profits by nudging users to pass through their sites in order…