Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Akrasia

  • Virtue, Vice, and Mastery

    I lately quoted St. Augustine  to the effect that a bad man has as many masters as he has vices. But to be mastered by one's virtues, though better than to be mastered by one's vices, is arguably shy of the ne plus ultra of mastery. The ultimate in mastery is mastery of both one's…