Virtue Ethics and Education from Late Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century
This book argues that premodern 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. B...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam University Press
2018
Amsterdam : [2018] |
| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Knowledge communities (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009431231506719 |
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
