In Buddhism, faith is not blind belief but rather trust and confidence in direct experience, we find in “just knowing” ...

Not surprisingly, Aristotle − and Winston Churchill, centuries later − identified fortitude or courage as the most important civic virtue in the list. Their rationale was simple: Without it, none of ...

Aristotle reminds us that virtue is a practice in balance. Kant calls us to honor human dignity. Sartre reminds us about freedom to choose. Descartes urges us to question, so that clarity may follow.

In his written Maundy message the King said: “One of the puzzles of our humanity is how we are capable of both great cruelty and great kindness. “This paradox of human life runs through the ...

The answer, I've come to believe, lies in understanding three aspects of human capability: IQ, EQ, and something the ancient Greeks called "artete" or virtue.

The edict suppresses most of women’s political, civil and human rights guaranteed under international law. And if women resist, it orders the use of violence to repress them.

Instead of assuming that we know what human beings do, we should presume that, whenever an A.I. replaces a person in some role or other, something—perhaps a great deal—is lost.

Emphasizing again that “the human being is made for goodness,” the Pope underscored that cultivating virtue, the “mirror image” of vice, is built upon “open-mindedness” and the ...

BOOK REVIEW: FICTION Human virtue questioned in the not-so-small things Review of Claire Keegan’s ‘Small Things Like These’ (Grove Press, 2021) ...

Radhika Jones on the Virtues of Human Intelligence The VF editor in chief previews the October issue, from a deep dive on AI to an investigation into the Titan ’s final descent.