Difficult Virtues: An Aristotelian Perspective

This book describes 8 virtues that have proven problematic to virtue ethicists. Curzer offers novel accounts of all 8 difficult virtues, and demonstrates that they possess the standard features of Aristotelian virtues.

Howard J. Curzer is a President’s Excellence in Research Professor at Texas Tech University. His publications include Aristotle and the Virtues (Oxford UP, 2012), Virtue Ethics for the Real World: Improving Character without Idealization (Routledge, 2023), and articles on ancient philosophy, contemporary virtue ethics, the Confucian tradition, moral development, research ethics, biomedical ethics, and the Hebrew Bible.