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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