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] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Knowledge communities (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (335 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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