Virtue Ethics for the Real World: Improving Character without Idealization
Autor Howard J. Curzeren Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 aug 2024
When undergirding his theory, Curzer wears several hats. He is a eudaimonist when grounding virtue, a constructivist when grounding value, and a perspectivist (a la Nietzsche) when grounding virtuous action.
How can people improve without aiming at an ideal? Curzer offers an individualized approach to character improvement modeled on contemporary medicine. First, diagnose each person’s character flaws. Then tailor treatment plans to each flaw. An important tool is a fine-grained table of the components of character, their failure modes, and corresponding therapies. Curzer provides the beginnings of such a table.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781032425481
ISBN-10: 1032425482
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 32
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1032425482
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 32
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate AdvancedCuprins
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
Notă biografică
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).
Descriere
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.