"For the narrow-minded man, though worthy of  good things, deprives himself of what he is worthy of."

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (350 B.C.), iv. 3.

Richard's latest post set me to puzzling over the meaning of the word narrow-minded.  I poked around and discovered that I had unknowingly swallowed the word as a liberal slogan, that the word narrow-minded has another meaning in ancient philosophy, and that Richard is the very opposite of narrow-minded in the ancient sense when he is most narrow minded in the liberal sense. Continue reading "Richard Cocks is Not Narrow-minded and Should Not Consent to Become So"