Virtue Ethics And Education From Late Antiquity To The Eighteenth Century
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Virtue Ethics and Education from Late Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century
Author | : Andreas Hellerstedt |
Publsiher | : Knowledge Communities |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2018-08-07 |
Genre | : Ethics |
ISBN | : 9462984441 |
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This book argues that pre-modern societies were characterized by a common quest for human flourishing or excellence, i.e. virtue. The history of virtue is a particularly fruitful approach when studying pre-modern periods. Systems of moral philosophy and more day-to-day moral ideas and practices in which virtue was central were incredibly important in pre-modern societies within and among diverse scholarly, literary, religious and social communities. Virtue was a cornerstone of pre-modern societies, permeating society in many different ways, and on many different levels, and it was conveyed in erudite and pedagogical texts, ritual, performance and images. The construction of virtues such as wisdom, courage, and justice helped shape identities and communities, but also served to legitimize and reinforce differences pertaining to gender, social hierarchies, and nations. On a more fundamental level, studying the history of virtue helps us understand the guiding principles of historical action. Thus, we believe that the history of virtue is central to understanding these societies, and that the history of virtue, including criticisms of virtue and virtue ethics, tells us important things about how men and women thought and acted in ages past.
Moral Laboratories
Author | : Cheryl Mattingly |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2014-10-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780520281196 |
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Moral Laboratories is an engaging ethnography and a groundbreaking foray into the anthropology of morality. It takes us on a journey into the lives of African American families caring for children with serious chronic medical conditions, and it foregrounds the uncertainty that affects their struggles for a good life. Challenging depictions of moral transformation as possible only in moments of breakdown or in radical breaches from the ordinary, it offers a compelling portrait of the transformative powers embedded in day-to-day existence. From soccer fields to dinner tables, the everyday emerges as a moral laboratory for reshaping moral life. Cheryl Mattingly offers vivid and heart-wrenching stories to elaborate a first-person ethical framework, forcefully showing the limits of third-person renderings of morality.Ê
Aquinas on Virtue
Author | : Nicholas Austin |
Publsiher | : Georgetown University Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781626164734 |
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Aquinas on Virtue is an original interpretation of one of the most compelling accounts of virtue in the Western tradition, that of the great theologian and philosopher Thomas Aquinas. This book offers a systematic analysis of Aquinas on the nature, genesis, and role of virtue in human life.
Saint Anthony s Fire from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century
Author | : Alessandra Foscati |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : MEDICAL |
ISBN | : 9462983348 |
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After the discovery of the ergotism epidemics (poisoning caused by ingesting the fungal toxin of rye) and its etiology, eighteenth-century physicians interpreted medieval chronicles in their medical texts in order to recognize the occurrences of ergotic diseases through retrospective diagnosis. They assumed that St. Anthony's fire and ignis sacer ("sacred fire") recorded in medieval texts represented the same disease, ergotism. This interpretative method, lacking a textual basis in the sources, has been incorrectly followed by historians till now. This book examines this historical prejudice through textual analysis, comparing diverse medieval and early modern sources. A striking semantic complexity emerges that changes the concept of St. Anthony's fire and modifies our understanding of diseases in general. This research illuminates aspects of the history of medicine, society, and hospitals.
Nicomachean Ethics
Author | : Aristotle |
Publsiher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2016-10-27 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 153978438X |
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The Ethics of Aristotle is one half of a single treatise of which his Politics is the other half. Both deal with one and the same subject. This subject is what Aristotle calls in one place the "philosophy of human affairs;" but more frequently Political or Social Science. In the two works taken together we have their author's whole theory of human conduct or practical activity, that is, of all human activity which is not directed merely to knowledge or truth. The Nicomachean Ethics is the name normally given to Aristotle's best-known work on ethics. The work, which plays a pre-eminent role in defining Aristotelian ethics, consists of ten books, originally separate scrolls, and is understood to be based on notes from his lectures at the Lyceum. The title is often assumed to refer to his son Nicomachus, to whom the work was dedicated or who may have edited it (although his young age makes this less likely). Alternatively, the work may have been dedicated to his father, who was also called Nicomachus. The theme of the work is a Socratic question previously explored in the works of Plato, Aristotle's friend and teacher, of how men should best live. In his Metaphysics, Aristotle described how Socrates, the friend and teacher of Plato, had turned philosophy to human questions, whereas Pre-Socratic philosophy had only been theoretical. Ethics, as now separated out for discussion by Aristotle, is practical rather than theoretical, in the original Aristotelian senses of these terms. In other words, it is not only a contemplation about good living, because it also aims to create good living. It is therefore connected to Aristotle's other practical work, the Politics, which similarly aims at people becoming good. Ethics is about how individuals should best live, while the study of politics is from the perspective of a law-giver, looking at the good of a whole community.
The Reception of Greek Ethics in Late Antiquity and Byzantium
Author | : Sophia Xenophontos,Anna Marmodoro |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2021-06-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108833691 |
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This volume provides the first authoritative study of the creative appropriation of Greek ethics by late antique and Byzantine authors.
Virtue Ethics
Author | : Christine Swanton |
Publsiher | : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2003-03-20 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780191531125 |
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Christine Swanton offers a new, comprehensive theory of virtue ethics which addresses the major concerns of modern ethical theory from a character-based perspective. Discussion of many problems in moral theory, such as moral constraints, rightness of action, the good life, the demandingness of ethics, the role of the subjective, and the practicality of ethics, has been dominated by Kantian and Consequentialist theories, with their own distinctive conceptual apparatus. Virtue Ethics shows how a different framework can shed new light on these intractable issues. Swanton's approach is distinctive in that it departs in significant ways from classical versions of virtue ethics derived primarily from Aristotle. Employing insights from Nietzsche and other sources, she argues against both eudaimonistic virtue ethics and traditional virtue ethical conceptions of rightness. In developing a pluralistic view, she shows how different 'modes of moral acknowledgement' such as love, respect, appreciation, and creativity, are embedded in the very fabric of virtue, the moral life, and the good life.
The Cambridge Companion to Virtue Ethics
Author | : Daniel C. Russell |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2013-02-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107001169 |
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This volume addresses the history, future and contemporary application of virtue ethics.