If we now find ourselves looking down on the cheap and convenient, it is only because we now have better things which are affordable.

Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.

Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.

If you believe you are right, then you should believe that you can make the case that you're right. This requires you to deal with serious objections properly.

Yesterday's news feeds our fear that our neighbours are more likely than not to be bad eggs: benefit fraudsters, bogus asylum seekers, paedophiles or jihadist terrorists.

If there is an art of living, it is not something that can be taught timelessly. We have lessons to learn from Aristotle et al, for sure, but not if we simply uproot them from their epoch and stamp them into 21st-century soil.

It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim "never say never" is one of the most important in ethics.