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On Excellence and Telos
Aristotle, Aquinas, and the Westminster Catechism help us understand that excellence is found in virtuous living in pursuit of our purpose.
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On Excellence and Telos
Aristotle, Aquinas, and the Westminster Catechism help us understand that excellence is found in virtuous living in pursuit of our purpose.
Apr 8
Pursuing Excellence: Virtue, Morality, and the Good Life
As we seek excellence, exploring morality and virtue helps us live well before God, others, and ourselves.
Feb 14
Mansfield's Book of Manly Men
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,...
Jul 9, 2024
The Place Between Pain and Failure
I don’t like pain and I certainly don’t like failure.  Neither are comfortable and neither make me feel good.  In fact, the latter if we...
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Socrates, Paul, and Strength
One of my favorite forms of teaching is Socratic questioning. Ask my residents, they have probably been subjected at some point to this...
Feb 28, 2024
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Feb 4, 2024
The Tactics of Excellence
When I was a young boy, I had a fascination with the Civil War. Now, you could say that the fascination was borne more out of an...
Jan 13, 2024
Arete Strategy and the Transcendentals
In the last post we discussed the pursuit of excellence in the context of mission. The mission defines the path that we must follow. ...
Jan 3, 2024
Arete Mission
Language is an interesting thing. As any student of language can attest, a word often doesn't mean just one, narrow thing. There is...
Dec 10, 2023
The Meaning of Excellence
The goal of this project is to pursue excellence by living with purpose, intention, and virtue.
Feb 11, 2023
Fitness and the Strenuous Life
Fitness is an excellent training ground to mold, shape and develop our minds, bodies and the Arete ethos.
Nov 28, 2022
The Arete Ethos
What does it mean to be and Excellent Physician? Read here about the Arete Ethos.
Apr 21, 2022
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