The modern virtues fail because they concern the outer self, the human facade, the part of ourselves the world sees most — Jonathan V. Last
The modern virtues fail because they concern the outer self, the human facade, the part of ourselves the world sees most — Jonathan V. Last
The modern virtues fail because they concern the outer self, the human facade, the part of ourselves the world sees most — Jonathan V. Last
The modern virtues fail because they concern the outer self, the human facade, the part of ourselves the world sees most — Jonathan V. Last
The modern virtues fail because they concern the outer self, the human facade, the part of ourselves the world sees most — Jonathan V. Last
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The modern virtues fail because they concern the outer self, the human facade, the part of ourselves the world sees most readily – while the classical virtues form an organizing framework for our inner selves… for our souls.

— Jonathan V. Last
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