Virtue Ethics and Education from Late Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century / edited by Andreas Hellerstedt.

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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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Knowledge communities (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Physical Description:1 online resource (335 pages)
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