Reflections and essays on the virtues that shape human and spiritual life — a personal perspective on ethics, character, and transcendence.
King Lear, one of William Shakespeare’s most profound and sombre tragedies, written around 1605–1606, continues to resonate as a relentless examination of the human condition. The play portrays the downfall of an ageing monarch whose longing for affection and validation unleashes a cascade of betrayal, madness and death.
After dealing with liberality, Aristotle addresses in Book IV of the Nicomachean Ethics the virtue of magnificence (megaloprépeia). This virtue is also related to wealth, but not to any use of it; rather, only to great expenditures.
In Book IV of the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle presents the concept of liberality as the just mean in the use of wealth. Unlike other virtues connected to the body or to justice, it relates to giving and receiving material goods, above all giving, which is the noblest use of wealth.
The Will of Christ in the Light of Philosophy and Theology. An essay of reflection on Book III of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics.
If we were to reflect on ethics and divide it into two great fields of virtues, we would probably follow Aristotle, distinguishing them into intellectual and moral. This distinction is fundamental because it shows that moral excellence is a progressive construction.
Whether in the arts, science, professional life or family life, all our actions stem from a desire to attain that which makes us happy. In other words, everything the human being does is, even if unconsciously, a search for happiness.…
Achilles, despite his glory and strength, was not a happy man. An essay on virtue, heroism, and the empty pursuit of modern man.
Welcoming the gifts of God and making them bear fruit is a great responsibility that profoundly involves our freedom.
