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STANGL, R., Neither Heroes nor Saints. Ordinary Virtue, Extraordinary Virtue, and Self-Cultivation. Oxford University Press, 2020. 224p. Hardback. In this innovative, scholarly work Stangl...questions whether in neo-Aristotelian virtue theory, heroic, supererogatory acts should be viewed as falling beyond the mean into the vice of excess. If virtuous acts are more broadly defined as falling within a range, somewhere on the target, then heroic acts simply come closer to the center of the target than ordinary virtuous acts, and do not exhibit vices of excess. What is innovative in this book is Stangl's radical claim that there is a virtue, hitherto unnamed, of self-cultivation...[which] involves a willingness to learn from failures and gain satisfaction from the experience of growth. This openness to growth has been found to be present in several psychological studies of heroic people. Such people have a continual focus on problem solving and do not view failures as denigrations of their own worth. Their focus remains, in general, on benefitting others. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. CHOICE (Publisher's information). € 82.88 (New) (approx. delivery time: 14 days) ISBN: 9780197508459