In this book [Zagzebski] offers a fully-fledged defence of the claim that admiration, and the moral exemplars who form its paradigmatic object, have a crucial role to play in moral theory and practice. ... it will serve as a reference point for anyone wishing to think seriously about the role of exemplars and the experience of admiration in the moral life.
Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski is George Lynn Cross Research Professor, and Kingfisher College Chair of the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author of Epistemic Authority (2012).