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Tag: Virtues

Interpreting someone’s thoughts or actions can mean balancing their agency against the good. Kateryna Kovarzh/iStock via Getty Images

I’m a philosopher who tries to see the best in others...

Mark Schroeder, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Understanding one another can be hard. There is a...

The ‘courage to be’ in uncertain times − how one 20th-century...

Mordechai Gordon, Quinnipiac University Over the past few weeks, as negotiations for a ceasefire in Ukraine drag on, I’ve...

Hope is not the same as optimism, a psychologist explains −...

Kendra Thomas, Hope College On April 3, 1968, standing before a crowded church, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr....

Is democracy sacred?

Anthony D. Baker, Seminary of the Southwest With millions of votes yet to be counted and the election far from being decided, President Trump falsely...

Must the president be a moral leader?

Michael Blake, University of Washington The best presidents – including figures such as Abraham Lincoln and George Washington – are celebrated not only as good...

What makes a good friend?

Alexis Elder, University of Minnesota Duluth Good friendships seem worth celebrating. But for many of us, tensions can appear from time to time between being...

What makes a good friend?

Alexis Elder, University of Minnesota Duluth Good friendships seem worth celebrating. But for many of us, tensions can appear from time to time between being...

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