Neither Heroes nor Saints —— Ordinary Virtue, Extraordinary Virtue, and Self-Cultivation

----- 既不是英雄也不是圣人：普通的美德，非凡的美德和修养

ISBN: 9780197508459 出版年：2020 页码：225 Stangl, Rebecca Oxford University Press

Most of us have moral heroes--people such as Mother Teresa or Gandhi--who have dedicated their lives to making the world a better place. We admire such people, and may even seek to become more like them. But at the same time, we don't believe that anyone who falls short of their example is thereby bad or evil. We believe, in other words, both in the importance of moral ideals and exemplars and in the possibility of goodness short of perfection. This book aims to give a rigorous philosophical account and defense of these claims from within a broadly Neo-Aristotelian perspective.