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This is the very reason I fled to Substack- real discourses with real substance and meaning. Thank you.

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Way too much philosophy boils down to “the ends justify the means”; hence the endless killing fields along the road to utopia. While our family is not religious, I teach my kids the Non Aggression Principal (explained as a modern secular generalization of the “Thou Shalt Nots” of the 10 Commandments). With this as a hard constraint and handbrake on bad behavior, I expect my boys to strive for Aristotle’s Cardinal Virtues (prudence, temperance, fortitude, and justice), a common sense guide for human flourishing, which I refer to as “Virtue Voluntaryism”.

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