Virtue and ethics in the twelfth century / / edited by Istvan P. Bejczy and Richard G. Newhauser.

• Superior document: Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 130
• TeilnehmendeR: Bejczy, Istvan Pieter, 1965-; Newhauser, Richard, 1947-
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 130.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (399 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This volume analyses the renewal of Western moral thought in the twelfth century. This renewal was marked by a burgeoning of increasingly systematized texts, a lively reception of ancient moral philosophy and a greater emphasis on the psychology of the moral agent. Five contributions are devoted to monastic morality (Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux, Hugh of Folieto, Hugh of Saint Victor, Peter Abelard); another five to (proto-)scholastic thought (John of Salisbury, Peter Abelard, Stephen Langton, the idea of natural virtue, the justification of lying); three discuss moral issues in a wider social context (liberality vs. avarice, royal justice in England, the cardinal virtues and the French monarchy). The two remaining contributions explore ethical traditions in Islamic and Jewish philosophy. With contributions by István P. Bejczy, Céline Billot-Vilandreau, Marcia L. Colish, Jeroen Laemers, John Kitchen, Cary J. Nederman, Richard G. Newhauser, Willemien Otten, Burcht Pranger, Riccardo Quinto, Ineke van ’t Spijker, Arjo Vanderjagt, Björn Weiler and George Wilkes.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / István P. Bejczy and Richard G. Newhauser -- Introduction / István P. Bejczy -- Medieval Ethics and the Illusion of Interiority: Augustine, Anselm, Abelard / M.B. Pranger -- The Devil and Virtue: Anselm of Canterbury’s Universal Order / Arjo Vanderjagt -- In Conscience’s Court: Abelard’s Ethics as a Science of the Self / Willemien Otten -- Hugh of Saint Victor’s Virtue: Ambivalence and Gratuity / Ineke van ’t Spijker -- Bernard of Clairvaux’s De gradibus humilitatis et superbiae and the Postmodern Revisioning of Moral Philosophy / John Kitchen -- Claustrum animae: The Community as Example for Interior Reform / Jeroen W.J. Laemers -- The Problem of Natural Virtue / István P. Bejczy -- Rethinking Lying in the Twelfth Century / Marcia L. Colish -- Beyond Stoicism and Aristotelianism: John of Salisbury’s Skepticism and Twelfth-Century Moral Philosophy / Cary J. Nederman -- The Conflictus uitiorum et uirtutum Attributed to Stephen Langton / Riccardo Quinto -- The Virtues of “Rabbi Moyses” / George R. Wilkes -- Justice and Liberality: Opposition to Avarice in the Twelfth Century / Richard G. Newhauser -- Royal Justice and Royal Virtue in William of Malmesbury’s Historia Novella and Walter Map’s De Nugis Curialium / Björn Weiler -- Charlemagne and the Young Prince: A Didactic Poem on the Cardinal Virtues by Giles of Paris (C. 1200) / Céline Billot-Vilandrau -- Bibliography / István P. Bejczy and Richard G. Newhauser -- Index of Names / István P. Bejczy and Richard G. Newhauser -- Index of Subjects / István P. Bejczy and Richard G. Newhauser.