Search Results - "virtue"

Foul bodies cleanliness in early America / by Brown, Kathleen M., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Caring for the early modern body -- Skin -- Corruption -- Empire's new clothes -- Gentility -- Virtue -- Reimagining sickness and health -- Healing housework -- Redemption -- Laborers -- Immersion -- Mission.…”
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Foul bodies cleanliness in early America / by Brown, Kathleen M., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Caring for the early modern body -- Skin -- Corruption -- Empire's new clothes -- Gentility -- Virtue -- Reimagining sickness and health -- Healing housework -- Redemption -- Laborers -- Immersion -- Mission.…”
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Why Machiavelli matters a guide to citizenship in a democracy / by Bernard, John D.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Machiavelli in his time -- The secretary -- Machiavelli as political philosopher -- Machiavelli and republican virtue -- Machiavelli and the realm of fortune -- Machiavelli the writer -- Conclusion: Why Machiavelli matters.…”
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Why Machiavelli matters a guide to citizenship in a democracy / by Bernard, John D.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Machiavelli in his time -- The secretary -- Machiavelli as political philosopher -- Machiavelli and republican virtue -- Machiavelli and the realm of fortune -- Machiavelli the writer -- Conclusion: Why Machiavelli matters.…”
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The state of speech rhetoric and political thought in Ancient Rome / by Connolly, Joy, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Rhetoric and political thought -- Founding the state of speech -- Naturalized citizens -- The body politic -- The aesthetics of virtue -- Republican theater -- Imperial reenactments -- The Ciceronian citizen in a global world.…”
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The state of speech rhetoric and political thought in Ancient Rome / by Connolly, Joy, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Rhetoric and political thought -- Founding the state of speech -- Naturalized citizens -- The body politic -- The aesthetics of virtue -- Republican theater -- Imperial reenactments -- The Ciceronian citizen in a global world.…”
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Moroccan immigrant women in Spain : honor and marriage / by Pham, T. Thao

Table of Contents: “…The politics of space and place -- Gender and migratory honor -- Traditional marriages and honor -- Transnational endogamy -- Virgins and virtues -- Dishonor and its discontents -- Divorce and singlehood -- Veiling and embodied honor.…”
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Moroccan immigrant women in Spain : honor and marriage / by Pham, T. Thao

Table of Contents: “…The politics of space and place -- Gender and migratory honor -- Traditional marriages and honor -- Transnational endogamy -- Virgins and virtues -- Dishonor and its discontents -- Divorce and singlehood -- Veiling and embodied honor.…”
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Ethics of compassion bridging ethical theory and religious moral discourse / by Reilly, Richard, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Golden rule reasoning -- "Compassion" and related notions -- Compassion as the basis of moral value -- Precepts for avoiding doing harm -- Virtues and moral aspiration -- Will, responsibility and selflessness -- Postscript : joyful living.…”
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Ethics of compassion bridging ethical theory and religious moral discourse / by Reilly, Richard, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Golden rule reasoning -- "Compassion" and related notions -- Compassion as the basis of moral value -- Precepts for avoiding doing harm -- Virtues and moral aspiration -- Will, responsibility and selflessness -- Postscript : joyful living.…”
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Literary knowing in neoclassical France from poetics to aesthetics / by Delehanty, Ann T.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Mimesis and transcendence -- The heart's knowledge in Pascal -- Divine and human creation in Bouhours -- Boileau and the sublime -- From transcendence to virtue in Rapin -- Dennis's theory of mind -- Dubos and the faculty of sentiment.…”
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Literary knowing in neoclassical France from poetics to aesthetics / by Delehanty, Ann T.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Mimesis and transcendence -- The heart's knowledge in Pascal -- Divine and human creation in Bouhours -- Boileau and the sublime -- From transcendence to virtue in Rapin -- Dennis's theory of mind -- Dubos and the faculty of sentiment.…”
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Aesthetics and morality by Schellekens, Elisabeth

Table of Contents: “…-- Kant's theory of beauty, morality and freedom -- Sensibility to value -- Beauty and virtue of the soul.…”
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Socrates a guide for the perplexed / by Ahbel-Rappe, Sara, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Socrates : the man and the myth -- The life and death of Socrates -- The sources for Socrates -- Plato's Socrates -- Socratic method and epistemology -- Happiness and virtue -- The Socratic schools -- Socrates in the modern world -- Citizen Socrates -- Conclusion : Socrates and self-knowledge.…”
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The parent as citizen a democratic dilemma / by Duff, Brian

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the parent and the citizen -- Monsters in the garden : Rousseau on politics and parental virtue-- The tragedy of birth : Nietzsche on parenthood and political contest -- Troubled inheritance : Richard Rorty and the metaphysics of the child -- Deadbeat citizens : Cornel West and the parent as prophet -- Conclusion : exposing the citizen as parent.…”
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Aesthetics and morality by Schellekens, Elisabeth

Table of Contents: “…-- Kant's theory of beauty, morality and freedom -- Sensibility to value -- Beauty and virtue of the soul.…”
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Socrates a guide for the perplexed / by Ahbel-Rappe, Sara, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Socrates : the man and the myth -- The life and death of Socrates -- The sources for Socrates -- Plato's Socrates -- Socratic method and epistemology -- Happiness and virtue -- The Socratic schools -- Socrates in the modern world -- Citizen Socrates -- Conclusion : Socrates and self-knowledge.…”
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The parent as citizen a democratic dilemma / by Duff, Brian

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the parent and the citizen -- Monsters in the garden : Rousseau on politics and parental virtue-- The tragedy of birth : Nietzsche on parenthood and political contest -- Troubled inheritance : Richard Rorty and the metaphysics of the child -- Deadbeat citizens : Cornel West and the parent as prophet -- Conclusion : exposing the citizen as parent.…”
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By knowledge & by love charity and knowledge in the moral theology of St. Thomas Aquinas / by Sherwin, Michael S., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Thomas' theology of faith -- Charity's relationship to knowledge in human action -- Charity's status as a virtue.…”
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The golden cord a short book on the secular and the sacred / by Taliaferro, Charles

Table of Contents: “…-- Redemption and time -- Eternity in time -- Glory and the hallowing of domestic virtue.…”
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