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We are more interested in how we want to live than in the best way to live, preference triumphs over excellence.

Relativism claims no best way to live, because everyone factors place, time, roles, needs, hopes, desires and responsibilities. The best way to live should follow God’s will, loving God and neighbor, to enter into Heaven.

Great philosophers, like Kant, Aquinas, Descartes and Aristotele, agreed virtue is the best way to live.  Patient people will have a better relationship than impatient people, likewise for humble vs proud, generous vs greedy . . .  Every societal form – family, organization, community, nation – involves multiple relationships, so virtue benefits society.

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