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How to Be Virtuous Against the Grain

What to do when your models of virtue are vicious

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O. Alan Noble
Nov 14, 2025
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Virtue doesn’t happen in a vacuum.1 We cultivate virtue in community, in relation to other people. The virtuous are inherently communal. Prudence requires other parties for you to make careful decisions about or with. Courage often involves suffering for the good of a community, whether that be a city or a family or a chu…

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