At first glance, it seems hard to find anything positive in the phenomenon of envy. But upon deeper reflection, we can recognize that while envy is often demoralizing, antisocial, and even planet-destroying, there’s also a good kind of envy—one that motivates us to raise our game.
你必须要有勇气去创造吗?还是给公众想要的更好?是什么性格特征让一个人格外有创造力?当我们称赞一个人的创造力时，我们到底挑出了什么。偏心吗?新奇的吗?创意?
The classical view on the relationship between ethics and rulership can be traced back to Plato (424-348 BCE), whose Republic argues that a state will never be well governed unless its rulers are virtuous. Plato’s student Aristotle challenged his master on many issues (rejecting Plato’s radical views on gender, the family, and the private ownership of wealth), but the two agreed in linking personal virtue and effective leadership. In contrast, the foundational texts of modern political philosophy –The Princeby Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) andLeviathanby Thomas Hob
This is a review of Iris Murdoch's novel,The Nice and the Good(1968).