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Studiositas: The Virtue of Study and Attention

And the opposite of curiositas

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O. Alan Noble
Jan 10, 2025
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Under the heading of temperance fall the vice of curiositas and the sub-virtue of studiositas. A few months ago I wrote about the the vice of curiositas in relation to the David Platt documentary and the Steve Lawson scandal. At the time, I wrote that curiositas is โ€œa perverse, restless desire for knowledge that goes โ€ฆ

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