1st Edition

Difficult Virtues An Aristotelian Perspective

By Howard J. Curzer Copyright 2024
270 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

270 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

270 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In this book, Howard J. Curzer describes eight virtues that have proven problematic to virtue ethicists. Integrity has been the subject of wildly different accounts. Open-mindedness and forgiveness are described in ways that many endorse, but few seek to practice. Accounts of tolerance and civility generally fit only the privileged. Finally, good timing, ambition, and creativity have attracted... Read more

1. Introduction

2. Introducing the Virtue of Good Timing and Some Surprising Functions of Practical Reason

3. Tolerance and Open-Mindedness Joined at the Hip

4. An Aristotelian Account of Civility

5. Tweaking Open-mindedness

6. The Mirage of Unconditional Forgiveness

7. Integrity Uncluttered

8. The Will to Power, the Ambition of the Powerless, and the Web to the Rescue

9.The Way of the Creator Detours through Cyberspace to Bypass the Gatekeepers

10. An Aristotelian Architectonic: Recapitulation, Extrapolation, and Wild Speculation.

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Howard J. Curzer is a President’s Excellence in Research Professor at Texas Tech University. His publications include Aristotle and the Virtues (Oxford UP, 2012), Virtue Ethics for the Real World: Improving Character without Idealization (Routledge, 2023), and articles on ancient philosophy, contemporary virtue ethics, the Confucian tradition, moral development, research ethics, biomedical ethics, and the Hebrew Bible.