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Virtue Ethics in the Middle Ages : Commentaries on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, 1200-1500.
Title:
Virtue Ethics in the Middle Ages : Commentaries on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, 1200-1500.
Author:
Bejczy, István.
ISBN:
9789047423133
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (384 pages)
Series:
Brill's Studies in Intellectual History ; v.160

Brill's Studies in Intellectual History
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction (István P. Bejczy) -- i THE EARLY THIRTEENTH CENTURY -- The Structure of the Soul, Intellectual Virtues, and the Ethical Ideal of Masters of Arts in Early Commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics (Valeria A. Buffon) -- Moral and Intellectual Virtues in the Earliest Latin Commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics (Irene Zavattero) -- Virtus in the Naples Commentary on the Ethica nova (MS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, VIII G 8, ff. 4ra-9vb) (Martin J. Tracey) -- ii ALBERT THE GREAT AND THOMAS AQUINAS -- In War and Peace: The Virtue of Courage in the Writings of Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas (Jörn Müller) -- Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas on Magnanimity (Tobias Hoffmann) -- Aquinas's Interpretation of the Aristotelian Virtue of Justice and His Doctrine of Natural Law (Matthias Perkams) -- iii THE LATE THIRTEENTH CENTURY -- Heroic Virtue in the Commentary Tradition on the Nicomachean Ethics in the Second Half of the Thirteenth Century (Iacopo Costa) -- Utrum felix indigeat amicis: The Reception of the Aristotelian Theory of Friendship at the Arts Faculty in Paris (Marco Toste) -- iv THE THIRTEENTH AND FOURTEENTH CENTURIES -- The Cardinal Virtues in Medieval Commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics, 1250-1350 (István P. Bejczy) -- Political Prudence in Some Medieval Commentaries on the Sixth Book of the Nicomachean Ethics (Roberto Lambertini) -- The Virtue of Virginity: The Aristotelian Challenge (Pavel Blazek) -- v THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY -- Teaching Ethics at the University of Vienna: The Making of a Commentary at the Faculty of Arts (A Case Study) (Christoph Flüeler) -- Bibliography -- Index of Manuscripts -- Index of Names and Anonymous Works.
Abstract:
This collection surveys the tradition of medieval commentaries on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics from its thirteenth-century origins to the fifteenth century, concentrating on the conception of the moral and intellectual virtues in a continuous interplay of ancient and Christian moral thought.
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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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