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“You Anoint My Head With Oil/My Cup Overflows”: Excellence and Honor in the Moral Life

“You Anoint My Head With Oil/My Cup Overflows”: Excellence and Honor in the Moral Life

eighth in a guest series by Myles Werntz on Psalm 23 and the moral life

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You can find the previous article in this series here. Or begin at the beginning.

The Inequality of Excellence

The difficulty with virtue, Aristotle knew, was that it is inherently unequal: the lives of the sheep—though bound up together—is not that of the mass, but of a differentiated community. And in any community, the hands are not the feet, and the …

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Professor and author/editor of eight books in ethics/theology. Available for consultation for churches, universities, and nonprofits.
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