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Virtue and Ethics in the Twelfth Century.
Title:
Virtue and Ethics in the Twelfth Century.
Author:
Bejczy, István P.
ISBN:
9781433704376
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (399 pages)
Contents:
Introduction (István P. Bejczy (Radboud University Nijmegen)) -- MONASTIC THOUGHT -- Medieval Ethics and the Illusion of Interiority: Augustine, Anselm, Abelard (M.B. Pranger (University of Amsterdam)) -- The Devil and Virtue: Anselm of Canterbury's Universal Order (Arjo Vanderjagt (University of Groningen)) -- In Conscience's Court: Abelard's Ethics as a Science of the Self (Willemien Otten (Utrecht University)) -- Hugh of Saint Victor's Virtue: Ambivalence and Gratuity (Ineke van 't Spijker (Clare Hall, Cambridge)) -- Bernard of Clairvaux's De gradibus humilitatis et superbiae and the Postmodern Revisioning of Moral Philosophy (John Kitchen (University of Alberta, Edmonton)) -- Claustrum animae: The Community as Example for Interior Reform (Jeroen W.J. Laemers (Utrecht)) -- SCHOLASTIC THOUGHT -- The Problem of Natural Virtue (István P. Bejczy (Radboud University Nijmegen)) -- Rethinking Lying in the Twelfth Century (Marcia L. Colish (Yale University)) -- Beyond Stoicism and Aristotelianism: John of Salisbury's Skepticism and Twelfth-Century Moral Philosophy (Cary J. Nederman (Texas A & M University)) -- The Conflictus uitiorum et uirtutum Attributed to Stephen Langton (Riccardo Quinto (University of Padua)) -- The Virtues of "Rabbi Moyses" (George R. Wilkes (University of Cambridge)) -- DIFFUSION OF MORAL THEMES -- Justice and Liberality: Opposition to Avarice in the Twelfth Century (Richard G. Newhauser (Trinity University, San Antonio)) -- Virtue and Politics in English Historical Writing (Björn Weiler (University of Aberystwyth)) -- Charlemagne and the Young Prince: A Didactic Poem on the Cardinal Virtues by Giles of Paris (c. 1200) (Céline Billot-Vilandrau (University of Lyon II)) -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
Abstract:
This volume contains fifteen contributions on diverse aspects of twelfth-century moral thought, including monastic morality, (proto-)scholastic virtue ethics, the conception of virtue in various socio-political contexts and ethical traditions in Islamic and Jewish philosophy.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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