Studies
Virtue
The long inquiry into excellence of character, the human good and the well-ordered soul.
The Virtue section reads aretē as it was actually understood — excellence of character realised in action — and traces its long development from Homeric excellence through the Socratic dialogues, the Aristotelian doctrine of the mean, Stoic and Roman developments, and the Christian transformation of the virtues.
We are interested in the texts on their own terms before we are interested in their contemporary application. The reading is the work.