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One of the great joys I have in academic life is teaching an undergraduate course in traditional logic. It is also called formal, predicate, term, or syllogistic logic, but because Aristotle’s method for making valid arguments was the earliest treatment of the subject...
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Last Tuesday I introduced the concept of intellectual virtues. In short, I noted that an intellectual virtue is “a characteristic, like humility or cautiousness, that allows us to be more successful in discerning the truth.” Or, as Duncan Pritchard puts it, an...
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Have you ever been deceived about something or been duped by an illusion. Or, have you ever changed a belief over time? For most of us, this kind of thing is normal and happens rather often. But a direct implication of this reality is that we are the kinds of beings...
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“If your ship has been driven into these [amoral] seas, very well! Now clench your teeth! Keep your eyes open! Keep a firm hand on the helm!—We sail straight over morality and past it, we flatten, we crush perhaps what is left of our own morality by venturing...
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A prudent Prince neither can nor ought to keep his word when to keep it is hurtful to him and the causes which led him to pledge it are removed. If all men were good, this would not be good advice, but since they are dishonest and do not keep faith with you, you in...
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Through me one goes into the sorrowful city, through me one goes into eternal grief, through me one goes among the lost people. Justice moved my high creator; divine power made me, and highest knowledge and the first love. Before me no thing was created that was not...
