Month: November 2019

• November 2, 2019

  Tough Compassion

  It’s thought that compassion is always soft and gentle, but that’s a considerable mistake. Compassion may require perceptiveness, and perceptiveness may reveal that your interlocutor is deluded about something specific. To be soft and gentle, in such a case, may allow this person to maintain this delusion and therefore to be that much further from…
• November 1, 2019

  Why Is Wisdom Important?

  Let wisdom be defined as right conduct flowing directly from right understanding. That is, the wise person is known through her conduct. Yet because “one swallow does not make a summer” (Aristotle), wisdom is demonstrated through countless virtuous actions. Go further: somehow it can be ascertained that each of these actions arises immediately out of the wise…