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Is It More Virtuous to Struggle? Aristotle, Kant, and the Moral Saint Problem

Does doing good effortlessly make you more virtuous, or less? A philosophical exploration of Aristotle's virtue ethics, Kant's ethics of duty, and Susan Wolf's provocative argument that moral sainthood might be less admirable than it sounds.

April 7, 2026


Is It More Virtuous to Struggle? Aristotle, Kant, and the Moral Saint Problem
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