About

Virescit — Latin, “it grows green” — is a small journal of essays on virtue ethics, written from the conviction that the ancient Greeks and Romans still have the better vocabulary for the moral life: hexis, habituated character; phronesis, practical wisdom; arete, excellence proper to a thing’s nature. Where modern ethics tends to ask what is the right act, this tradition asks the slower, harder question: what must I become such that the right act comes naturally to me?

The name is drawn from a small, stubborn image — a seed that becomes a tree not by decision but by cultivation, season after season, mostly out of sight. It seemed the right emblem for a discipline that has never promised anything faster.

New essays appear irregularly, as the reading and the thinking allow.