Daniel Frank Lecture: Wisdom, Piety, and Superhuman Virtue
from The Grindstone
This episode of The Grindstone features the lecture given by Daniel Frank (Purdue University) at Purdue University on Friday, 26 April 2019. The lecture was given at a conference honoring the career of Dr. Patricia Curd, Professor Emerita of the Department of Philosophy at Purdue. The title of the lecture is: "Wisdom, Piety, and Superhuman Virtue". Dr. Frank's abstract of the talk is below: This paper moves between Aristotle, Maimonides, and the Stoics. Aristotle’s moral taxonomy, outlined in Nicomachean Ethics 7.1, appears problematic, given his view that in the sphere of moral virtue, the intermediate (temperance, courage) is the extreme, and there is no excess of temperance or courage. This is hard to square with the moral agent whom he describes as possessed of “hyperbolic” (hyperbole, excessive) virtue. As Aristotle has very little to say about the latter, I turn to Maimonides and the Stoics for clarification and enlightenment.
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