Vices Presenting as Virtues In his 2022 The Myth of Normal, thinker and physician Gabor Mate observes that vices often masquerade as virtues, not only in the behaviors of individuals but in societally widespread beliefs and perceptions. Roughly 2400 years earlier, philosopher and physician’s son Aristotle wrote of similar phenomena in his then-unpublished notes concerning ethics, character, and happiness. A display of rashness or foolhardiness … Continue reading A Meditation Concerning Anger, Compassion, False Compassion, Root Nature, and Misperceptions of Vices and Virtues