Virtue ethics and education from Late Antiquity to the eighteenth century /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hellerstedt, Andreas (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]
Colección:Knowledge communities.
Temas:
Virtue > History.
Ethics > History.
Moral education > History.
Vertus > Histoire.
Morale > Histoire.
Éducation morale > Histoire.
European history.
Literary studies: classical, early & medieval.
Literature: history & criticism.
HISTORY > Civilization.
HISTORY > Essays.
HISTORY > Reference.
HISTORY > Social History.
HISTORY > Europe > General.
Ethics.
Moral education.
Virtue.
Society & culture: general
Media studies
Films, cinema
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 / Tjällén, 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

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