Archive - Applied Virtue Essays

God and Morality

Continuing my series on morality, we get to the deeper questions of morality that concern God and religion.

Aug 21, 2022 •

April 2022

Christianity and Neopaganism

An invitation to dialogue for modern-day heathens

Apr 27, 2022 •

March 2022

What's Wrong With Centrism?

Centrism is less a reasonable political position and more a posture of defensiveness.

Mar 27, 2022 •

September 2021

Human Flourishing

Natural law theory and virtue ethics follow directly from the Scholastic understanding of goodness.

Sep 3, 2021 •

August 2021

Nietzschean Nihilism and Dionysian Deception

A Reply to Dionysus

Aug 27, 2021 •

The Metaphysics of Qualitative Judgment

What are goodness and beauty, really?

Aug 17, 2021 •

A Virtuous Critique of Fascism

The nature of fascism from a virtue ethics perspective.

Aug 6, 2021 •

July 2021

The Quality of Anti-Realism

A Reply to White Tom

Jul 24, 2021 •

The Reality of Goodness and Beauty

A "No Miracles" Argument for Qualitative Realism

Jul 8, 2021 •

April 2021

For Common Sense and Reason

Against Terminally Online Intellectual Terrorism

Apr 15, 2021 •

March 2021

GenderGate and the Trouble with Yale

Transgender politics will triumph over the efforts of academic centrists.

Mar 29, 2021 •

Moral Values and the Dissident Right

The way too many right-wingers approach the topic of moral values is mistaken.

Mar 6, 2021 •

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