In fact, the answers that religion, as we have come to know it, provides to the question of human worth have played so dominant a role in the preceding centuries that believers often cannot conceive how non-believers can muster sufficient commitment to their own lives to get out of bed each morning, let alone the ethical wherewithal to regard others as deserving of moral regard. Once one "comes out" as an atheist, these are the inquisitions to which one is often subjected.

The good polis is made by the good person, his moral character intact, and the good polis, in turn, helps turn out good persons, their moral character intact.

It is an essential feature of the just state that the wealthy be kept away from political power and that the politically powerful be kept away from wealth.

When the first people started to argue against slavery, for example, this was a new idea. If you crowd-source, you'd never come up with this. And so the - exactly the kind of progress we've made couldn't be made if we depend it on crowd-sourcing.

Mother' is not an identity one can just try on for size.

What is play and delightful one kind of child is coercion and torture for another, and will not take no matter how much coercion is applied.

Philosophy addresses, in a systematic and progress-making way, questions of deep concern to everyone.