Mark Shiffman

“We might say, in Aristotelian terms, that the political animal is prior in potency, but the city is prior in act.”

“My dignity as a free agent, acting in light of the first precept of natural law that good is to be done and pursued, lies precisely in subordination of my will to the Good.”

“Economics recasts our imagination of the life of production and consumption in the image of the unlimited acquisition of money rather than in the image of choices about goods that contribute to a good life.”