Aristotle and the virtues
By: Howard J. Curzer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 451
ISBN-13: 9780199693726; 9780198709640
Subjects: Nicomachean ethics (Aristotle); Ethik; Ethica Nicomachea; Dygd; Tugendethik; Virtue; Tugend
Other titles: Aristotle & the virtues
Description: "Aristotle is the father of virtue ethics- a discipline which is receiving renewed scholarly attention. Yet Aristotle's accounts of the individual virtues remain opaque, for most contemporary commentators of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics have focused upon other matters. In contrast, Howard J. Curzer takes Aristotle's detailed description of the individual virtues to be central to his ethical theory. Working through the Nicomachean Ethics virtue-by-virtue, explaining and generally defending Aristotle's claims, this book brings each of Aristotle's virtues alive. A new Aristotle emerges, an Aristotle fascinated by the details of the individual virtues."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 426-436) and index.
Table of contents: title: Moral virtues. Courage and continence; title: Temperence and incontinence; title: Liberality and benevolence; title: Magnificence and heroic virtue; title: Megalopsychia and appropriate ambition; title: Good temper and forgiveness; title: Wit and wounding; title: Friendliness and civility; title: Truthfulness and integrity; title: Justice and friendship. General, particular and poetic justice; title: Varieties of friendship; title: Justice in friendship; title: Moral development. Practical wisdom and reciprocity of virtue; title: Aristotle's painful path to virtue : the many and generous-minded; title: Shame and moral development : the incontinent, the continent, the naturally virtuous and the properly virtuous; title: Aristotles's losers : the vicious, the brutish, natural slaves and tragic heros; title: Happiness and luck.