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...intelligence or charm. These traits can help us achieve our goals. But they are not, just in themselves, morally good traits: they can be put to bad ends as well as good. Alternatively, we might view courage as a moral virtue. On this view, courage can be classed with other moral virtues such as honesty, fairness, generosity or kindness. Having these moral virtues (it...

...intelligent, handsome boys should avoid eating sausages before having sex. The origins of the sausage lie, then, in the very origins of human cookery yet retain currency as a barometer of cultural and political activity. Its independent emergence in different parts of the world reminds us that human creativity itself did not emerge from a single place such as the Fertile...

...intelligent and the figures good. III With such a journal as the Manchester Guardian still keeping its high rank among English newspapers, there cannot be question of the journalistic sort of thinking in the place. Of the sort that comes to its effect in literature, such as, say, Mrs. Gaskell's novels, there may also still be as much as ever; and I will not hazard my safe...