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Massimo Pigliucci on Why Virtue Matters
The Daily Stoic
Are Philosophers Teaching Virtue to Politicians?
Almost all the character studies in the book, Socrates, El Cibites, Aristotle, and Alexander, you have Seneca, Nero, Marcus, and Commodus, it never works. In almost none of the examples, are they able to teach virtue to the person, or were they able to be the adult in the room that steers them in the right direction? And I think that at the end of the day, we need to do two things. One, get rid of most of the politicians we have now, because frankly, they're not interested in virtue and in doing the right thing. The other thing that we need toDo is invest in the long run, and we
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