Patience and Perspective

Philosophy East and West 64 (2):269-286 (2014)
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I offer a Buddhist-inspired account of how patience can count as a moral virtue, arguing that virtuous patience involves having a perspective on the place of our own desires and values among others and a sense of their relative importance.

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Nicolas Bommarito
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Imaginative Moral Development.Nicolas Bommarito - 2017 - Journal of Value Inquiry 51 (2):251-262.
Can impatience be virtuous?Yotam Benziman - 2022 - South African Journal of Philosophy 41 (4):360-368.
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