Aristotle and the Virtues

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.