In the deep night of metaphysics, all cats look black.

Evil is often supposed to be without rhyme or reason.

If it is true that we need a degree of certainty to get by, it is also true that too much of the stuff can be lethal.

Like all the best radical positions, then, mine is a thoroughly traditionalist one.

It is easy to see why a diversity of cultures should confront power with a problem. If culture is about plurality, power is about unity. How can it sell itself simultaneously to a whole range of life forms without being fatally diluted?

I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.

For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.