The rain has lifted enough so that we can see the horizon now, a sharp line demarking the light grey of the sky and the darker grey of the water.

Lightning hits! Quality! Virtue! Dharma! That is what the Sophists were teaching! Not ethical relativism. Not pristine 'virtue.' But arete. Excellence. Dharma!…

The hero of the Odyssey is a great fighter, a wily schemer, a ready speaker, a man of stout heart and broad wisdom who knows that he must endure without too mu…

How are you going to teach virtue if you teach the relativity of all ethical ideas? Virtue, if it implies anything at all, implies an ethical absolute. A perso…

One afternoon in early January, the weather showed a lack of character. There was no frost nor wind: the trees in the garden did not stir.

The buttercups across the field Made sunshine rifts of splendor.

It was England in the autumn; the sun was, by definition, something that only happened when it wasn't cloudy or raining.