Moral and Civic Virtue as the Bedrock of the Manifest Game of Life, the Cornerstone of Dynamic Social Equipoise

Abstract

To conceive of virtue as the bedrock foundation of communal life and the social edifice is nothing new. Just as Leibniz in presenting his metaphysics of the monad insisted that his view of the monad was nothing new, but merely a “reviving of the individual substances of the Scholastics,” so I will refer in my proposal to Aristotle. However, I have to point out from the start that my approach to questions concerning human conduct is situated within a special — non-Aristotelian — perspective, namely, that of the phenomenology and metaphysics of life.