Since anomie has been brought to the table

[alice wellintown]

If virtue is activity in accord with one's nature, such actions will
give one power and pleasure.

To act in this manner one must face the truth.

The truth may be painful and hard, difficult to get at, but it must be faced.

The truth is knowledge of god.

For Aristotle, Thomas, Spinoza ...suicide is un-natural absence of
virtue and thus the suicide is powerless and in the control of forces
repugnant to his own nature.

If we act in accord with our nature we are virtuous and happy.

Such actions will be directed by reason and toward a common goal
(knowledge of god...).

Moderns killed god, so they can not know god in this sense.

Betran Russell, a modern,  said, "The secret of happiness is to face
the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible."

He also said, "The only thing that will redeem mankind is co-operation."

I think Freud, also a modern, said pretty much the same; he thought we
humans were just as driven to co-operate as we are driven to make war.

But war, as Richard McKeon, another modern, argued, just makes a
bloody mess of things we have to sit down and clean up, together,
sooner or later, so war can not be our goal, though it sometimes seems
like it is to irrational observers and cranky "historians. "