Victor Nuovo
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Victor Nuovo: The right and the good
When Adam and Eve disobeyed the divine prohibition and ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they couldn’t have known that they…
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Victor Nuovo: Good and evil, gods and humans
It is impossible to reach an understanding of the meaning of life without a knowledge of good and evil, for lacking it we would not be able to…
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Letter to the editor: We must engage Putin’s evil with political realism
There is no doubt that Vladimir Putin has succeeded in achieving one of his life purposes. He has become a world-historical figure.
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Victor Nuovo: Plato considers time, being, creation
Plato was not only a profound philosopher, but also a consummate artist, and reading his works is not only interesting and intellectually challenging, but an aesthetic delight.
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Victor Nuovo: Death and immortality
Socrates imagined that death is one of two things: Either it is extinction, or the release of the soul from the body and its migration to another place.
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Victor Nuovo: Look to our great moral teachers
It is a curious fact that the two greatest moral teachers of the Western intellectual tradition — Socrates of Athens (470–399 BCE) and Jesus of Nazareth (4 BCE–30…
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Victor Nuovo: Does God exist?
In my last essay I wrote that Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716), who was surely a great philosopher, believed that God is the reason for everything, which leads to…
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Victor Nuovo: The fundamental questions of the meaning of life
“Why is there anything at all? Why not Nothing?” The German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) took this to be the fundamental question of philosophy.
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Victor Nuovo: Like everyone, I ask, “What does it all mean?”
What is the meaning of life? I will consider answers to this question in a new series of essays.
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Local sweethearts enter tenth decade — together
If you’re lucky, you’ll spot Victor and Betty Nuovo just about any morning, walking hand-in-hand along Main and/or Weybridge streets.
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Victor Nuovo: U.S. confronts Political Realism
Political Realism is a theory of government whose special concern is with the immoral forces endemic to all governments, which are stubborn and persistent obstacles to justice.
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Victor Nuovo: The meaning of it all
This essay concludes my current series of essays, and, as is fitting, I finish with a conclusion.
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Victor Nuovo: Rawls considered equal treatment for all
I will conclude this series of essays on the life of the mind in America with a brief account of “A Theory of Justice” by American philosopher John…
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Victor Nuovo: MLK went beyond civil rights
39th in a series Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968), MLK, did not only theorize about social ethics, he embodied it, and gave his life for it. The fundamental…
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Victor Nuovo: MLK went beyond civil rights
39th in a seriesMartin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968), MLK, did not only theorize about social ethics, he embodied it, and gave his life for it. The fundamental truth…
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Victor Nuovo: Niebuhr described human paradox
38th in a seriesReinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971) situated himself in the tradition of social ethics created by Jane Addams, as did John Dewey; his affinity with her was greater…