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In the present time moral forces are needed as they enable us to find the balance between two extremes, especially in the economy. In times of an economic crisis such as the current, it would be fruitful to closely examine whether a balance can be achieved. Too much credit, too much optimism, too much speculation together with too less a sense of what is needed, what is sensible and what is sustainable were among the forces that brought about the current crisis. Moral forces can restore the balance, as W. J. Stein shows in this article by listening to what Aristotle would say.
It was Aristotle who knew as no one else at his time that moral forces are virtues that can be learned as the legendary Socrates already stated one generation before. Aristotle learned that a virtue is the middle between two opposite forces.
In current times, we may also look to the mystery of the Grail as finding the middle between too much and too less is a way that also leads to this mystery. Not for nothing is the name of Percival, the famous knight of the Grail, a different way of saying “he who goes straight through the middle”.
The Grail knights are already – and will be – here again, so the moral virtues as a path that goes through the middle, may very well be a timely subject also from this perspective.
Please find the article here.