Howard J. Curzer

Virtue Ethics for the Real World (eBook, ePUB)

Improving Character without Idealization

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000830293
• Artikelnr.: 66993662

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Welcome to the Real World 2. Don't Dream Impossible Dreams
3. Divorcing the Virtuous and the Right 4. When Virtues Collide: Dilemmas
and Other Debris 5. Grounding the Theory: Happy Campers, Virtue-Cool Kids,
and Practically Wise Guys 6. Reciprocity of Virtue v. Unevenly Virtuous
People 7. Corrective Doctrine v. Doctrine of the Mean 8. Healing Character
Flaws 9. Teeny Tiny Bits of Virtue 10. Demystifying Practical Wisdom and
Complexifying Decision-Making 11. Aristotelian Well-Being for the Modern
World 12. A Glance Backward; A Way Forward