Topic
Virtue Ethics
4 articles
The Opposite of Virtue: Is It Vice, or the Absence of It?
The opposite of virtue is vice — but two ancient schools disagree about what vice even is, and the answer changes how you handle your own faults.
June 6, 2026
Aristotle's Virtue Ethics: Why Goodness Isn't a Rulebook
Aristotle's virtue ethics asks who you should become, not what you should do. The golden mean isn't a halfway point — and that changes everything.
June 2, 2026
What the Four Stoic Virtues Really Are (and Why It's One)
The four Stoic virtues look like a list to memorise. They are really one idea wearing four faces — and that changes how you use them.
May 25, 2026
Nicomachean Ethics: What Aristotle Said About Living Well
Aristotle's argument wasn't a list of virtues to follow. It was a theory of how character forms — and why that matters more than behaviour.
May 18, 2026