What is virtue, though?

Has anyone ever read Six Questions of Socrates, by Cristopher Phillips?

Basically, it's the author, going around, and asking smallish groups of people questions, which fall into one of six chapters in the book: "What is Virtue?", "What is Moderation?", "What is Justice?", "What is Good?", "What is Courage?", and "What is Piety?".

Each chapter then has the conversations that started from there.

And it's a really, really wide range of people that he'll go around asking, too. In the first chapter ("What is Virtue?"), he starts off in Athens, Greece, then goes to the Navajo Nation, and then to Tokyo. The second chapter ("What is Moderation?") has brought him from a community of Muslim-American women, somewhere near the Pacific, to Seoul, Korea, and now (since I'm about halfway through the chapter) to Tempe, Arizona, which is something of a college town.

Seriously, it's an amazing book. Seriously. I'm not saying you have to buy it... at least go to the library and borrow it for however long. But, it's one of those books you have to read. Regardless.

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