Heroes, Saints, and Ordinary Morality Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: The Morally Ordinary and the Morally Extraordinary	1
Pt. I	Heroes, Saints, and Supererogation within the Context of a Duty-Based Morality
Ch. 1	Supererogation, Optional Morality, and the Importance of J. O. Urmson and David Heyd in the History of Ethics	33
	The Advent of the Concept of Supererogation in Contemporary Ethics	33
	Urmson's Heroes and Saints: Moral Exemplars without Moral Authority	40
	From Urmson to Heyd: Standardizing Supererogation	51
Ch. 2	The Standard View under Critical Scrutiny	75
	Urmson and Heyd Contested	75
	A Duty to Go Beyond the Call of Duty?	93
Pt. II	Morally Extraordinary Persons
Ch. 3	Ordinary Human Heroes	109
	The "Hero" as a Type	109
	Heroic Representations	115
	Human Heroes	127
	Characterizing Heroes within a Moral Framework	148
Ch. 4	Suffering Saints	172
	Eccentrics or Exemplars?	172
	Following in the Footsteps of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Dorothy Day: The Case of Two Modern Saints	184
	Saints and the "Ethics of Excess"	200
	Saints and Supererogation	212
Pt. III	Ordinary Persons and Moral Betterment
Ch. 5	Moral Development, Obligation, and Supererogation	237
	The Thesis of Moral Development	237
	Aristotle and the Grounds for the Aretaic Meta-Duty	244
	Psychological Realism and the Thesis of Moral Development	260
	Criticisms and Responses	273
Ch. 6	Human Striving and Creative Justice	296
	The Thesis of Moral Development and the Religious Thought of Abraham Heschel and Paul Tillich	296
	Abraham Heschel and Human Striving	297
	Paul Tillich and Creative Justice	303
	Conscience	308
	Conclusion: The Banality and Contingency of Good and Evil	314
	Bibliography	323
	Index	338