Terminology Tuesday: Tolerance
A trait regarded as one of the chief virtues by contemporary Western societies. Tolerance is often confused with a relativistic refusal to criticize another view or make any substa
Terminology Tuesday: Virtue
A disposition or character trait that is itself an excellence or good or that tends to lead to what is good, with moral virtues being those excellences that foster human flourishin
Terminology Tuesday: Possible Worlds
Ways the actual world could have been. In the actual world I have brown hair, but perhaps there is a possible world in which I have blond hair. A set of alternatives to the actual
Terminology Tuesday: Ecofeminism
View that lack of concern for the environment is grounded in patriarchal attitudes, including religious constructs that divorce human beings from nature and regard nature as proper
Terminology Tuesday: Hope
One of the primary Christian virtues, along with faith and love. Hope is a positive expectation of some future good that is not yet present and where there is some uncertainty, at