The Truth of Life are the Virtues

In this manufactured world, it is possible to be happy. What is your gift? What is the meaning of your existence? What will you do with your life, whilst there is still time? What is your purpose in life? What is your spiritual journey?

One day I woke up and threw up. I realised that my life was going in the wrong direction. It was time for a change. Now I wake up and I don’t throw up any more. I’m no longer afraid to tell myself that I’m happy.

I couldn’t see the marvellous beauty of the Virtues, because I was surrounded by my own limitations, my fear, my projections and expectations. I couldn’t see all the beauty that was there. I had to lose myself completely – like a father who loses a child, like a child who loses their parents – in order to love their spirit fully, the spirit of the Virtues. Please don’t make the same mistake. It’s all much simpler than that.

Lift your head, stand up straight and look ahead. Be mature, be confident, take on life’s responsibilities. Love without being loved in return, seek strength, keep your spirit free and do not expect support from anyone. Act on your own, with independence and courage. Stop crawling on your knees. Be a man.

Emotionally weak people are perfect slaves. Enough of being an obedient coward.

We are building a philosophy of human freedom rendered into practice.

The Philosophy of Virtues holds that virtue is not a list of rules, nor a private moral scorecard, but the art of making freedom real in the world. Courage is freedom in danger. Justice is freedom in society. Charity is freedom in generosity. Every genuine virtue is freedom given form through discipline and practice.

Our work is to map these forms, to understand how they are built, how they decay, and how they can be renewed — in persons, in institutions, and in nations.

Philosophy of Virtues Research Programme