A sincere and teachable heart : : self-denying virtue in British intellectual life, 1736-1859 / / by Richard Bellon.
In A Sincere and Teachable Heart: Self-Denying Virtue in British Intellectual Life, 1736-1859 , Richard Bellon demonstrates that respectability and authority in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain were not grounded foremost in ideas or specialist skills but in the self-denying virtues of pati...
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Superior document: | Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions, Volume 14 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2015. ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
Series: | History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ;
Volume 14. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (285 p.) |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Summary: | In A Sincere and Teachable Heart: Self-Denying Virtue in British Intellectual Life, 1736-1859 , Richard Bellon demonstrates that respectability and authority in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain were not grounded foremost in ideas or specialist skills but in the self-denying virtues of patience and humility. Three case studies clarify this relationship between intellectual standards and practical moral duty. The first shows that the Victorians adapted a universal conception of sainthood to the responsibilities specific to class, gender, social rank, and vocation. The second illustrates how these ideals of self-discipline achieved their form and cultural vigor by analyzing the eighteenth-century moral philosophy of Joseph Butler, John Wesley, Samuel Johnson, and William Paley. The final reinterprets conflict between the liberal Anglican Noetics and the conservative Oxford Movement as a clash over the means of developing habits of self-denial. |
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Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9004263357 |
ISSN: | 2352-1325 ; |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | by Richard Bellon. |