Cræft: Skill as Moral Virtue

Updated: 2025.03.24 7M ago 1 sources
Revive the older sense of craft (cræft) as a fusion of practical skill, strength, and virtue, not merely handmade aesthetics. If moral excellence is partly forged through skilled bodily action, then restoring craft education and apprenticeships is a character policy, not nostalgia. — This reframes schooling, work, and AI displacement debates by tying human flourishing to embodied mastery rather than purely cognitive or procedural metrics.

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REVIEW: Cræft, by Alexander Langlands
Jane Psmith 2025.03.24 100% relevant
The review notes Alfred the Great used cræft to translate virtus and cites the Dictionary of Old English’s broader senses ('skill,' 'strength,' 'resources,' 'virtue').
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