These maladies include the corrosive social and civic effects of self-interest—a disease that arises from the cure of overcoming the ancient reliance upon virtue.
This is subtle, but I think he’s got an interesting point.
But I’m still uncertain whether I agree with his progress from here on page 29. Although he mentions “norms” later in the paragraph, he doesn’t connect those norms to (virtuous) self-governance, in ex…
