• Should Aristotelians Endorse the Harm Principle?
    History of Philosophy Quarterly 37 (1): 21-38. 2020.
    J. S. Mill’s harm principle rules out, among other things, the criminalization of purely self-regarding conduct. I argue that Aristotle’s ideas, especially his claims about the interpersonal nature of justice and the importance of the “common good,” provide support for this antipaternalistic principle. I consider whether Aristotelians who are also theists can defend paternalistic and moralistic laws on the grounds that private wrongdoing is an injustice against God. I conclude that they cannot. …Read more
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    Cardinal virtue habituation as liberal citizenship education
    Journal of Philosophy of Education 55 (2): 397-408. 2021.
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    Is Art a Virtue?
    Southwest Philosophy Review 36 (1): 169-177. 2020.
    In several articles, Peter Goldie argues that artistic production and appreciation should enjoy the status of full-fledged virtues. In this paper, I draw on the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas to provide a more nuanced account of artistic or aesthetic virtue. First, I raise some objections to Goldie’s account. Next, I show that, unlike Goldie, Aquinas distinguishes between virtue “properly so called” and virtue in a more restricted sense, and he calls art a virtue only in the restricted sense…Read more