Virtue or excellence is a psychic phenomenon. Is it an emotion or the capacity to experience an emotion? An emotion is something we feel or undergo, and we cannot hold ourselves responsible for that; but it is an essential feature of virtue that we praise it, of vice that we blame it. But we do not ...

It's common these days to chatter about smaller governments and individual responsibility, but we are actually living in increasingly prohibitionary times. Choices properly decided by private individuals are now being limited or abolished by public policies. Hence the v-chip, government mand...

How We Believe In the book, How We Believe, written by Michael Shermer, he presents the idea that humans are story-telling animals. It is in the human nature to tell stories at times that are needed to either prove a point or simply just to teach a moral. Ever since the beginning of time, stori...