Tag: Vice
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August 3, 2018
Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post.
Each quarter, Harrison Middleton University hosts a Quarterly Discussion. This discussion is open to students and non-students alike. They focus on a short text which everyone reads prior to the discussion. I thoroughly enjoy these because they give me a chance to break away from my own studies, to focus on something in a small group which is a great listening opportunity.
July 28, 2017
Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post.
“what other end or period is there of all the wars and dangers which hapless princes run into, whose misery and folly it is, not merely that they make luxury and pleasure, instead of virtue and excellence, the object of their lives, but that they do not so much as know where this luxury and pleasure are to be found?” –
May 5, 2017
Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post.
Enjoy Liszt’s “Dante Sonata” while reading today’s journey into hell.
I spent a few hours last week discussing the various virtues of Dante’s Inferno. I could spend endless hours discovering the ways in which one gains knowledge of virtue through sin in Dante. His brilliant and horrific punishments both captivate and repel.
August 12, 2016
Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post.
We have been discussing the idea of virtue for the past few weeks on this blog. If you have not seen those posts, you can read them here and here. We would be remiss, however, to discuss virtue without at least a nod in the direction of vice.
Last week, we discussed the idea of virtues learned through the physical body,