Victor Nuovo
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Letter to the editor: Nuovos deserve lasting tribute
As I was reading the tributes to Victor Nuovo in this newspaper following his death a few weeks ago, it occurred to me that a fitting memorial would…
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Middlebury mourns the loss of Victor Nuovo
Longtime educator, philosopher, author, columnist, husband and Middlebury selectboard member Victor Nuovo was recalled as a gentle statesman and great human being whose heart — and love for…
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Editorial: Tributes for a mentor to many
Lauded as a long-time academic scholar at Middlebury College, author, philosopher, columnist, devoted husband, mentor to Middlebury selectboard members and good friend, the passing of Victor Nuovo, 91,…
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Letter to the editor: Nuovo’s essays are a great read
I’d like to commend the Addison Independent’s publication of Professor Victor Nuovo’s essays.
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Victor Nuovo: The birth of Neoplatonism and European theological systems
Plotinus believed that all existing things, including the physical universe, possess souls, and that there exists in every soul a longing, a deep desire to return to the…
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Victor Nuovo: Stoicism: Arduous path to wisdom
The chief end of life, according to the Stoics, is moral autonomy, moral self-governance, which they took as the only reliable path to self-mastery.
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Victor Nuovo: Epicurus & ‘the gift to be simple’
To begin with, Epicurus, the philosopher, was not a vulgar Epicure, which is to say he did not live his life in pursuit of sensual delights, eating and…
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Victor Nuovo: Aristotle’s metaphysics
Aristotle wondered whether there might be a single cosmological principle that not only gave unity to the whole of nature, but was the cause of its existence. He…
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Victor Nuovo: Aristotle: ‘substances’ & truth
He was the first philosopher to conceive of a comprehensive system of the arts and sciences, and he made original contributions to many of them: logic, semantics, politics,…
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Victor Nuovo: Plato’s ‘Republic’: City and soul
“The Republic” of Plato (426-346 BCE), which may be the greatest philosophical work ever written, has two themes, the soul and the city.