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McCormick Prof. of Jurisprudence, Princeton University + Bluegrass Banjo Picker + "Anathema to the Left" (quoting E. Green, The Atlantic). unWoke/uncancellable

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    Robert P. George‏ @McCormickProf Apr 5

    Are people in our own time generally more virtuous than their forebears, less virtuous, or neither more nor less virtuous?

    7:07 PM - 5 Apr 2021
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      1. Zachary McCartney‏ @ZacharyMcCartn4 Apr 5
        Replying to @McCormickProf

        We have different vices—for all the talk of moral decay this generation doesn’t own people—nor do we glorify or tolerate lynchings. I’d say that’s a leg up on our forbearers

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      2. Craig Bruce Smith‏Verified account @craigbrucesmith Apr 5
        Replying to @McCormickProf

        Modern people often look at the flawed morals/virtues of the past without context. Meanwhile, previous generations have historically and consistently accused their children/grandchildren of moral failure. So the answer is C, as the concept of what is or is not "virtuous" evolves.

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      3. Craig Bruce Smith‏Verified account @craigbrucesmith Apr 5
        Replying to @craigbrucesmith @McCormickProf

        Some virtues were more valued in the past than today and vice versa.

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      1. DJJF‏ @DJFXD Apr 5
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        True virtues and sin have been have been ignored if not scorned for 50 years.

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      1. Walter Appling‏ @WalterAppling Apr 5
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        Impossible to answer.

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      1. Sean Garvey‏ @sgarvey703 Apr 5
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        Just as flawed, just as prone to sin, but I’m not sure we even know what virtue is anymore, or how to develop it, or why

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      1. John Tuggy‏ @from_ThePearl Apr 5
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        Thinking quantitatively, looking globally, little has changed.

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      1. Terry Maratos-Flier‏ @Maratosflier Apr 5
        Replying to @McCormickProf

        As adult I was "shamed" into reading Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics (I am science geek and had not read any philosophy age < 40) and was surprised that in more than two millennia the personalities of humans and their approach to good and evil has hardly changed.

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      1. Michael Livingston‏ @LawProfMichael Apr 6
        Replying to @McCormickProf

        You know the generation of the Bible wasn’t terribly virtuous either . . .

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      1. Shhhh‏ @rcengineer Apr 6
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        What’s changed is which non-virtuous acts folks are willing to make public.

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