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Aristotle and the Virtues (Paperback)
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Aristotle and the Virtues (Paperback)
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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. Justice and friendship hold special places in
Aristotle's virtue theory. Many contemporary discussions place
justice and friendship at opposite, perhaps even conflicting, poles
of a spectrum. Justice seems to be very much a public, impartial,
and dispassionate thing, while friendship is paradigmatically
private, partial, and passionate. Yet Curzer argues that in
Aristotle's view they are actually symbiotic. Justice is defined in
terms of friendship, and good friendship is defined in terms of
justice. Curzer goes on to reveal how virtue ethics is not only
about being good; it is also about becoming good. Aristotle and the
Virtues reconstructs Aristotle's account of moral development.
Certain character types serve as stages of moral development.
Certain catalysts and mechanisms lead from one stage to the next.
Explaining why some people cannot make moral progress specifies the
preconditions of moral development. Finally, Curzer describes
Aristotle's quest to determine the ultimate goal of moral
development, happiness.
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