Tag: Moral Virtue

• April 4, 2015

  Vulnerability on the wrong side of the ledger

  Claiming that vulnerability is a moral virtue makes the mistake of putting vulnerability on the wrong side of the ledger. An existential term, it is made to pose as an ethical concept. Jonathan Lear helps us see why this is the case. For in Radical Hope Lear advances the metaphysical thesis that human beings are finite erotic creatures. We are…