E-Books →Neither Heroes nor Saints Ordinary Virtue, Extraordinary Virtue, and Self-Cultivation

Free Download Rebecca Stangl, "Neither Heroes nor Saints: Ordinary Virtue, Extraordinary Virtue, and Self-Cultivation"
English | ISBN: 0197508456 | 2020 | 224 pages | PDF | 1310 KB
Most of us are far from perfect in virtue. But even those who come far closer to perfect virtue than most of us-people like Mother Theresa, Martin Luther King, Jr., or Gandhi-nonetheless fall short of possessing it: not even moral saints and heroes are perfectly virtuous. Faced with this fact, moral philosophers can respond in two different ways: they might insist that the only real virtue is perfect virtue, and the only right actions are perfectly virtuous ones. Any failure to meet the exacting standards of perfect virtue will amount to vice, and any less than perfectly virtuous actions will be wrong. Or, if they reject such a rigorist picture, they can instead affirm that there are actions that are truly good and right even if they fall short of perfection.