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Habits for Moral Character

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 12:50:12 +0000

This essay is the sixth in the series "Good Habits." The discussion is based on my book of the same title. Many people today seem to think moral character is something we have or don't have, and nothing can be done to acquire it. That idea is mistaken. Many others believe that having moral character [...]

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Overanalyzing Kindness

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 15:22:44 +0000

Since the election many of my liberal friends seem to have overcome their compulsion to lecture me on what a horrible human being Donald J. Trump is, was, and ever will be, and to recite a litany of ways in which he had ruined our country, perhaps beyond repair. My first interpretation of this change in behavior [...]

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A Special Kind of Giving

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Wed, 25 Dec 2013 15:08:28 +0000

The Christmas season encourages us to shift our attention from receiving to giving, and that is a blessing because it frees us for a time from the prison of ego. Today’s financial uncertainty, however, curtails the kind of giving that involves spending money, so people need to seek other kinds. One special form of giving [...]

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