The Suspicion Of Virtue

Author : John J. Conley
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 238 pages
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Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781501722653

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The Suspicion of Virtue by John J. Conley Pdf

The salon was of particular importance in mid- to late-seventeenth-century France, enabling aristocratic women to develop a philosophical culture that simultaneously reflected and opposed the dominant male philosophy. In The Suspicion of Virtue, John J. Conley, S. J., explores the moral philosophies developed by five women authors of that milieu: Madame de Sablé, Madame Deshoulières, Madame de la Sabliére, Mlle de la Vallière, and Madame de Maintenon. Through biography, extensive translation, commentary, and critical analysis, The Suspicion of Virtue presents the work of women who participated in the philosophical debates of the early modern period but who have been largely erased from the standard history of philosophy. Conley examines the various literary genres (maxim, ode, dialogue) in which these authors presented their moral theory. He also unveils the philosophical complexity of the arguments presented by these women and of the salon culture that nurtured their preoccupations. Their pointed critiques of virtue as a mask of vice, Conley asserts, are relevant to current controversy over the revival of virtue theory by contemporary ethicians.

Author : Thomas Osborne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781316511749

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Thomas Aquinas on Virtue by Thomas Osborne Pdf

A comprehensive account of Thomas Aquinas's understanding of virtue, for scholars in ethics, medieval philosophy, and theology.

Author : Jennifer A. Herdt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226327259

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Putting On Virtue by Jennifer A. Herdt Pdf

Augustine famously claimed that the virtues of pagan Rome were nothing more than splendid vices. This critique reinvented itself as a suspicion of acquired virtue as such, and true Christian virtue has, ever since, been set against a false, hypocritical virtue alleged merely to conceal pride. Putting On Virtue reveals how a distrust of learned and habituated virtue shaped both early modern Christian moral reflection and secular forms of ethical thought. Jennifer Herdt develops her claims through an argument of broad historical sweep, which brings together the Aristotelian tradition as taken up by Thomas Aquinas with the early modern thinkers who shaped modern liberalism. In chapters on Luther, Bunyan, the Jansenists, Mandeville, Hume, Rousseau, and Kant, she argues that efforts to make a radical distinction between true Christian virtue and its tainted imitations actually created an autonomous natural ethics separate from Christianity. This secular value system valorized pride and authenticity, while rendering graced human agency less meaningful. Ultimately, Putting On Virtue traces a path from suspicion of virtue to its secular inversion, from confession of dependence to assertion of independence.

Author : Holly A. Crocker
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812296273

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The Matter of Virtue by Holly A. Crocker Pdf

If material bodies have inherent, animating powers—or virtues, in the premodern sense—then those bodies typically and most insistently associated in the premodern period with matter—namely, women—cannot be inert and therefore incapable of ethical action, Holly Crocker contends. In The Matter of Virtue, Crocker argues that one idea of what it means to be human—a conception of humanity that includes vulnerability, endurance, and openness to others—emerges when we consider virtue in relation to modes of ethical action available to premodern women. While a misogynistic tradition of virtue ethics, from antiquity to the early modern period, largely cast a skeptical or dismissive eye on women, Crocker seeks to explore what happened when poets thought about the material body not as a tool of an empowered agent whose cultural supremacy was guaranteed by prevailing social structures but rather as something fragile and open, subject but also connected to others. After an introduction that analyzes Hamlet to establish a premodern tradition of material virtue, Part I investigates how retellings of the demise of the title female character in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Henryson's Testament of Cresseid, and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida among other texts structure a poetic debate over the potential for women's ethical action in a world dominated by masculine violence. Part II turns to narratives of female sanctity and feminine perfection, including ones by Chaucer, Bokenham, and Capgrave, to investigate grace, beauty, and intelligence as sources of women's ethical action. In Part III, Crocker examines a tension between women's virtues and household structures, paying particular attention to English Griselda- and shrew-literatures, including Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. She concludes by looking at Chaucer's Legend of Good Women to consider alternative forms of virtuous behavior for women as well as men.

Author : Robert Merrihew Adams
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191564499

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A Theory of Virtue by Robert Merrihew Adams Pdf

The distinguished philosopher Robert M. Adams presents a major work on virtue, which is once again a central topic in ethical thought. A Theory of Virtue is a systematic, comprehensive framework for thinking about the moral evaluation of character. Many recent attempts to stake out a place in moral philosophy for this concern define virtue in terms of its benefits for the virtuous person or for human society more generally. In Part One of this book Adams presents and defends a conception of virtue as intrinsic excellence of character, worth prizing for its own sake and not only for its benefits. In the other two parts he addresses two challenges to the ancient idea of excellence of character. One challenge arises from the importance of altruism in modern ethical thought, and the question of what altruism has to do with intrinsic excellence. Part Two argues that altruistic benevolence does indeed have a crucial place in excellence of character, but that moral virtue should also be expected to involve excellence in being for other goods besides the well-being (and the rights) of other persons. It explores relations among cultural goods, personal relationships, one's own good, and the good of others, as objects of excellent motives. The other challenge, the subject of Part Three of the book, is typified by doubts about the reality of moral virtue, arising from experiments and conclusions in social psychology. Adams explores in detail the prospects for an empirically realistic conception of excellence of character as an object of moral aspiration, endeavor, and education. He argues that such a conception will involve renunciation of the ancient thesis of the unity or mutual implication of all virtues, and acknowledgment of sufficient 'moral luck' in the development of any individual's character to make virtue very largely a gift, rather than an individual achievement, though nonetheless excellent and admirable for that.

Author : David E. Cooper,Simon P. James
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351954310

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Buddhism, Virtue and Environment by David E. Cooper,Simon P. James Pdf

Buddhism, one increasingly hears, is an 'eco-friendly' religion. It is often said that this is because it promotes an 'ecological' view of things, one stressing the essential unity of human beings and the natural world. Buddhism, Virtue and Environment presents a different view. While agreeing that Buddhism is, in many important respects, in tune with environmental concerns, Cooper and James argue that what makes it 'green' is its view of human life. The true connection between the religion and environmental thought is to be found in Buddhist accounts of the virtues - those traits, such as compassion, equanimity and humility, that characterise the life of a spiritually enlightened individual. Central chapters of this book examine these virtues and their implications for environmental attitudes and practice. Buddhism, Virtue and Environment will be of interest not only to students and teachers of Buddhism and environmental ethics, but to those more generally engaged with moral philosophy. Written in a clear and accessible style, this book presents an original conception of Buddhist environmental thought. The authors also contribute to the wider debate on the place of ethics in Buddhist teachings and practices, and to debates within 'virtue ethics' on the relations between human well-being and environmental concern.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1318 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Quotations, English
ISBN : UOM:39015013730653

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Day's Collacon: an Encyclopaedia of Prose Quotations by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rosalind Hursthouse
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198238188

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On Virtue Ethics by Rosalind Hursthouse Pdf

Virtue ethics is perhaps the most important development within late 20th-century moral philosophy. Rosalind Hursthouse presents an exposition and defence of her neo-Aristotelian version of virtue ethics.

Author : John W. Chapman,William Arthur Galston
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1993-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780814714997

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Virtue by John W. Chapman,William Arthur Galston Pdf

In this 34th volume in the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy series, an international group of scholars examine what is meant by "virtue," probing various historical and analytical meanings of virtue; notions of liberal virtue, civic virtue and judicial virtue; the nature of secular and theological virtue. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : pope Benedict XIV
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590071990

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Heroic virtue: a portion of the treatise on the beatification and canonization of the servants of God, tr. [ed. by the congregation of the Oratory of st. Philip Neri]. by pope Benedict XIV Pdf

Author : Pope Benedict XIV
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026775933

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Heroic Virtue: a Portion of the Treatise of Benedict XIV. on the Beatification and Canonization of the Servants of God. Translated, Etc. [Edited by the Congregation of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri.] by Pope Benedict XIV Pdf

Author : Sandrine Berges
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441133045

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Plato on Virtue and the Law by Sandrine Berges Pdf

Ancient philosophy is no longer an isolated discipline. Recent years have seen the development of a dialogue between ancient and contemporary philosophers writing on central issues in moral and political philosophy. The renewed interest in character and virtue as ethical concepts is one such issue, yet Plato's contribution has been largely neglected in contemporary virtue ethics. In Plato on Virtue and the Law, Sandrine Berges seeks to address this gap in the literature by exploring the contribution that virtue ethics make to the understanding of laws alongside the interesting and plausible insights into current philosophical concerns evident in Plato's dialogues. The book argues that a distinctive virtue theory of law is clearly presented in Plato's political dialogues. Through a new reading of the Crito, Menexenus, Gorgias, Republic, Statesman and Laws, Berges shows how Plato proposes several ways in which we can understand the law from the perspective of virtue ethics.

Author : D. Morse
Publisher : Springer
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230288430

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The Age of Virtue by D. Morse Pdf

In the eighteenth century 'virtue' was a word to conjure with. It called to mind heroic predecessors from the Roman Republic such as Cato and Brutus and invoked qualities of personal integrity, selflessness and a concern for the common good, which, though urgently needed, seemed desperately lacking, both in the ruthless party struggles of the age of Anne and subsequently in the all-pervading political corruption of the Walpole administration. When the longed-for political saviour failed to materialize it was increasingly felt that if virtue existed at all then it would have to be sought for among the lower orders of society or else in provincial areas, where simpler and nobler values might still prevail. But with the coming of the French Revolution and Romanticism virtue began to lose its powerful resonances - it now seemed naive and simplistic, all too ready to deny both the complexities of human nature and the possibility of determination by external cultural forces.

Author : Catherine A. Darnell,Kristján Kristjánsson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000218015

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Virtues and Virtue Education in Theory and Practice by Catherine A. Darnell,Kristján Kristjánsson Pdf

Virtues and Virtue Education in Theory and Practice explores questions about the locality versus the universality of virtues from a number of theoretical and practical perspectives. Written by leading international scholars in the field, it considers the relevance of these debates for the practice of virtue and character education. This volume brings together experts from education, philosophy, and psychology to consider how different disciplines might learn from each other and how insights from theory and practice can be integrated. It shows that questions about virtue relativity or universality have not only theoretical significance but also important practical ramifications. The chapters explore different complexities of virtue ethics and different approaches to nurturing virtue and beyond, questioning how well virtues travel across geographical and cultural borders. By examining the philosophical literature and making links between theory and practice in an original way, the book offers scholarly research-informed suggestions for practice. It will be of great interest to researchers and academics and students in educational philosophy, character education, ethics, and psychology.

Author : Lorraine Besser-Jones,Michael Slote
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135096694

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The Routledge Companion to Virtue Ethics by Lorraine Besser-Jones,Michael Slote Pdf

Virtue ethics is on the move both in Anglo-American philosophy and in the rest of the world. This volume uniquely emphasizes non-Western varieties of virtue ethics at the same time that it includes work in the many different fields or areas of philosophy where virtue ethics has recently spread its wings. Just as significantly, several chapters make comparisons between virtue ethics and other ways of approaching ethics or political philosophy or show how virtue ethics can be applied to "real world" problems.