Virtue ethics in the Middle Ages : commentaries on Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics, 1200 -1500 / / edited by Istvan P. Bejczy.

• Superior document: Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 160
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Bejczy, Istvan Pieter, 1965-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 160.
• Physical Description: vi, 374 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

The early thirteenth century -- The structure of the soul, intellectual virtues, and the ethical ideal of masters of arts in early commentaries on the Nichomachean ethics / Valeria A. Buffon -- Moral and intellectual virtues in the earliest Latin commentaries on the Nicomachean ethics / Irene Zavattero -- Virtus in the Naples commentary on the Ethica nova (MS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, VIII G 8, ff. 4ra-9vb) / Martin J. Tracey -- Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas -- In war and peace : the virtue of courage in the writings of Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas / Jorn Muller -- Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas on magnanimity / Tobias Hoffmann -- Aquinas's interpretation of the Aristotelian virtue of justice and his doctrine of natural law / Matthias Perkams -- The late thirteenth century -- Heroic virtue in the commentary tradition on the Nicomachean ethics in the second half of the thirteenth century / Iacopo Costa -- Utrumfelix indigeat amicis : the reception of the Aristotelian theory of friendship at the Arts Faculty in Paris / Marco Toste -- The thirteenth and fourteenth centuries -- The cardinal virtues in medieval commentaries on the Nicomachean ethics, 1250-1350 / Istvan P. Bejczy -- Political prudence in some medieval commentaries on the sixth book of the Nicomachean ethics / Roberto Lambertini -- The virtue of virginity : the Aristotelian challenge / Pavel Blazek -- The fifteenth century -- Teaching ethics at the University of Vienna : the making of a commentary at the Faculty of Arts (a case study) / Christoph Flueler.