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July 21, 2012

"He has a demon, and is mad."

Always, the ancients knew that the tragic is woven inherently in the human condition because they understood what we have progressively dismissed:
that "there is no one who does good, no not one," except now and then, here and again, but almost never as a habit. Virtue, said Aristotle, is excellence made habitual, which is exactly why virtue is so rare: the habits of man are rarely excellent and left to themselves, without rigorous moral training or an externality of constraint to the good, will always become corrupted.-- Don Sensing @ Sense of Events

Posted by gerardvanderleun at July 21, 2012 10:54 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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