Moral Virtue Versus Intellectual Virtue

I was raised in a proudly Jewish, Yiddish-speaking, non-religious home for which the virtues of character were uppermost. I had this kind of enlightenment view, not so much bookishly taught, but it was sort of the moral teaching, social outlook of my own. As the arts and sciences progress, what you see is the increase of inequality, the growth of luxury, the debasement of taste," he says. "People eventually lose their freedom and wind up debased and enslaved"