Speaker 2
stuff you write into a book of course I am I'm still doing this Cardinal virtue series so justice is next okay it was done but comes out in June and then I'm I just started wisdom nice yeah I'm I guess I'm mentally preparing myself unfortunately for justice to be the worst selling one in the series
Speaker 1
what does worst selling mean for
Speaker 2
you well I yes still pretty good but but it's all relative but the the tricky part of that one is like well I guess it says something about society that if you're like I'm writing a book about justice most people are gonna be like no thanks well prudence is one people don't want well what prudence is wisdom right yeah
Speaker 1
okay so that's why you okay I got it
Speaker 2
yeah first yeah well that so that it that is that's been the perennial struggle with the book which is okay you can't write a book on temperance so you got to make it about discipline because nobody wants temperance then you can't do justice because justice is means legal justice or social justice even though both those things are important that's what it means to people but no one no one's other than people who are law professors they're not like I want to read a book of that so that's happening to become about doing what is right right or and then prudence is how wisdom is sometimes rendered is but knowing nobody
Speaker 1
wants that right thing to do
Speaker 2
yes knowing the right thing to do but also I think to me that's the bucket where education and learning and knowledge and truth and all those things come in right
Speaker 1
have you you read the all you know peepers yeah and that's that's the best book on the floor right yes yeah yeah
Speaker 2
yeah no he's he's amazing and then cs luice has like an amazing essay on that yeah
Speaker 1
over the night the nice thing about peeper is that he defines them in a way that's that's expensive well and I think
Speaker 2
he does a really good job of showing how they're all interrelated with each other yeah
Speaker 2
it courage is doing the right thing when you're afraid prudence is knowing what the right thing is the temperance is the right amount of the right thing and then justice is like who's it for who does it know exactly
Speaker 1
and that's all hangs together yes these are these are these are interconnected virtues you really can separate any
Speaker 2
of them yeah did you sign a contract for the four books I did but but um for for a good reason which is that you know the publishing is they don't look at how many books you've sold they look at how many are last they look at how your last book did to decide the next one so I wanted I very much wanted to see them as a package yeah and not want you know anyway so far so far discipline is outsold everything like maybe 50 60 because that's the most straight down the middle of what everyone wants
Speaker 1
yeah it's the most stoic of your books
Speaker 1
that's sure that's your audience and
Speaker 2
I don't know about you but I like having what I'm supposed to do like I like having the contract of like I have to deliver a book by this time yeah
Speaker 1
I'm not sure how I feel about that actually because I keep interrupting my schedule I mean I wasn't doing this I mean I wasn't on this wheel yeah
Speaker 1
years old right you know I was just doing books about you know AEI stuff and sure and then stopped yeah now I'm doing now I'm more in your world because
