Virtue Ethics and Education from Late Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century /

This book argues that pre-modern societies were characterized by the quest for 'virtue '. The concept of virtue, complicated and much fought-over, permeated society, encouraging wisdom, courage, and justice, while simultaneously legitimizing social hierarchies based on sex and nationality....

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Kolejni autorzy: Hellerstedt, Andreas (Redaktor)
Format: Elektroniczne E-book
Język:angielski
Wydane: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]
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Spis treści:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • List of figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction / Hellerstedt, Andreas
  • Eustratius of Nicaea as a source for the Neoplatonist notion of levels of virtue in the Early Latin commentators on the Nicomachean Ethics / Eliasson, Erik
  • Teaching virtue through the law / Tjällen, Biörn
  • The tree and its fruit / Eyice, Mari
  • Fostering civic virtue / Preste, Tania
  • Dancing virtue / Rota, Stefano Fogelberg
  • The path to virtue / Kolrud, Kristine
  • Virtue and duty / Lindberg, Bo
  • The Royal Rhetor / Nell, Jennie
  • Antagonistic parents in Frances Brooke 's The Old Maid and The History of Julia Mandeville / Vance, Michaela
  • Cracks in the mirror / Hellerstedt, Andreas
  • Index