Aristotle and the virtues

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Howard J. Curzer presents a fresh new reading of Aristotle's 'Nicomachean Ethics', which brings each of the virtues alive. He argues that justice and friendship are symbiotic in Aristotle's view; reveals how virtue ethics is not only about being good but about becoming good; and describes Aristotle's quest to determine happiness.

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Full title :Aristotle and the virtues / Howard J. Curzer.

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Publication Date:2012.

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Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012.

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Description:1 online resource (451 pages)

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oclc:ocn785782768
LC Classification:B491.E7
Dewey Decimal:185

Moral virtues. Courage and continence -- Temperence and incontinence -- Liberality and benevolence -- Magnificence and heroic virtue -- Megalopsychia and appropriate ambition -- Good temper and forgiveness -- Wit and wounding -- Friendliness and civility -- Truthfulness and integrity -- Justice and friendship. General, particular and poetic justice -- Varieties of friendship -- Justice in friendship -- Moral development. Practical wisdom and reciprocity of virtue -- Aristotle's painful path to virtue : the many and generous-minded -- Shame and moral development : the incontinent, the continent, the naturally virtuous and the properly virtuous -- Aristotles's losers : the vicious, the brutish, natural slaves and tragic heros -- Happiness and luck.