1st Edition
Virtue Ethics for the Real World Improving Character without Idealization
By Howard J. Curzer
Copyright 2023
272 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
272 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
272 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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In Virtue Ethics for the Real World: Improving Character without Idealization , Howard J. Curzer argues that character ideals seduce virtue ethicists into counterintuitive claims, mislead and psychologically harm people seeking to improve their characters, and sometimes become tools for exploitation. Curzer offers a theory of Aristotelian virtue ethics that eschews idealization and that... Read more
- Introduction: Welcome to the Real World
- Don’t Dream Impossible Dreams
- Divorcing the Virtuous and the Right
- When Virtues Collide: Dilemmas and Other Debris
- Grounding the Theory: Happy Campers, Virtue-Cool Kids, and Practically Wise Guys
- Reciprocity of Virtue v. Unevenly Virtuous People
- Corrective Doctrine v. Doctrine of the Mean
- Healing Character Flaws
- Teeny Tiny Bits of Virtue
- Demystifying Practical Wisdom and Complexifying Decision-Making
- Aristotelian Well-Being for the Modern World
- A Glance Backward; A Way Forward
Part I: Against Idealization
Part II: Character Improvement
Biography
Howard J. Curzer is a President’s Excellence in Research Professor at Texas Tech University. His publications include the monograph Aristotle and the Virtues (2012), a textbook-anthology Ethical Theory and Moral Problems (1999); and articles on ancient philosophy, contemporary virtue ethics, the Confucian tradition, moral development, research ethics, biomedical ethics, and the Hebrew Bible. He is a recipient of an NSF grant and co-edited a special issue of a journal of the National Academy of Sciences, ILAR Journal (2013).
