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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101051382156
Author : Delusion
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000567132
Author : James Hankins
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674242524
Winner of the Helen and Howard Marraro Prize A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year “Perhaps the greatest study ever written of Renaissance political thought.” —Jeffrey Collins, Times Literary Supplement “Magisterial...Hankins shows that the humanists’ obsession with character explains their surprising indifference to particular forms of government. If rulers lacked authentic virtue, they believed, it did not matter what institutions framed their power.” —Wall Street Journal “Puts the politics back into humanism in an extraordinarily deep and far-reaching way...For generations to come, all who write about the political thought of Italian humanism will have to refer to it; its influence will be...nothing less than transformative.” —Noel Malcolm, American Affairs “[A] masterpiece...It is only Hankins’s tireless exploration of forgotten documents...and extraordinary endeavors of editing, translation, and exposition that allow us to reconstruct—almost for the first time in 550 years—[the humanists’] three compelling arguments for why a strong moral character and habits of truth are vital for governing well. Yet they are as relevant to contemporary democracy in Britain, and in the United States, as to Machiavelli.” —Rory Stewart, Times Literary Supplement “The lessons for today are clear and profound.” —Robert D. Kaplan Convulsed by a civilizational crisis, the great thinkers of the Renaissance set out to reconceive the nature of society. Everywhere they saw problems. Corrupt and reckless tyrants sowing discord and ruling through fear; elites who prized wealth and status over the common good; religious leaders preoccupied with self-advancement while feuding armies waged endless wars. Their solution was at once simple and radical. “Men, not walls, make a city,” as Thucydides so memorably said. They would rebuild the fabric of society by transforming the moral character of its citizens. Soulcraft, they believed, was a precondition of successful statecraft. A landmark reappraisal of Renaissance political thought, Virtue Politics challenges the traditional narrative that looks to the Renaissance as the seedbed of modern republicanism and sees Machiavelli as its exemplary thinker. James Hankins reveals that what most concerned the humanists was not reforming institutions so much as shaping citizens. If character mattered more than laws, it would have to be nurtured through a new program of education they called the studia humanitatis: the precursor to our embattled humanities.
Author : Susanna Moodie
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0267361696
Excerpt from The Little Quaker, or the Triumph of Virtue: A Tale for the Instruction of Youth George and william hope were the only children of a gentleman of fortune, who lived in a fine house at the entrance of a pretty village in Berkshire. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Susanna Moodie,Catherine Parr Strickland Traill
Publisher : Andesite Press
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1297768760
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11786384
Author : Michiel S. de Vries,P. Kim
Publisher : Springer
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230353886
A multidisciplinary analysis of the role of values and virtue in public administration, this book calls for a rediscovery of virtue. It explores ways of enabling the public sector to balance the values that are presently dominant with classic values such as accountability, representation, equality, neutrality, transparency and the public interest.
Author : Edward Royall Tyler,William Lathrop Kingsley,George Park Fisher,Timothy Dwight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : United States
ISBN : HARVARD:32044004339206
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Religion
ISBN : PRNC:32101065272898
Author : Sir Archibald Alison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Europe
ISBN : HARVARD:32044088050521
Author : John W. Chapman
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1992-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780814772720
In the United States, there exists increasing uneasiness about the predominance of self-interest in both public and private life, growing fear about the fragmentation and privatization of American society, mounting concerns about the effects of institutions—ranging from families to schools to the media—on the character of young people, and a renewed tendency to believe that without certain traditional virtues neither public leaders nor public policies are likely to succeed. In this thirty-fourth volume in The American Society of Legal and Political Philosophy, a distinguished group of international scholars from a range of disciplines examines what is meant by virtue, analyzing various historical and analytical meanings of virtue, notions of liberal virtue, civic virtue, and judicial virtue, and the nature of secular and theological virtue. The contributors include: Jean Baechler (University of Paris-Sorbonne), Annette C. Baier (University of Pittsburgh), Ronald Beiner (University of Toronto), Christopher J. Berry (University of Glasgow), J. Budziszweski (University of Texas), Charles Larmore (Columbia University), David Luban (University of Maryland), Stephen Macedo (Harvard University), Michael J. Perry (Northwestern University), Terry Pinkard (Georgetown University), Jonathan Riley (Tulane University), George Sher (University of Vermont), Judith N. Shklar (Harvard University), Rogers M. Smith (Yale University), David A. Strauss (University of Chicago), and Joan C. Williams (American University).
Author : F. F. Centore
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000-05-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780313002182
Centore's work is an inquiry into the weaknesses and strengths of the two basic positions in ethics: the man-centered model and the God-centered model for deciding between right and wrong behavior. The philosophical paradigm for the man-centered approach is absolute relativism, while the paradigm for the God-centered approach is relative absolutism. Centore argues that the man-centered model in actual practice proves not to be realistic as an ethical guide, while the God-centered model, if properly understood, is the most useful approach. This work penetrates difficult ethical issues by examining human experience and reasoning in conjunction with actual choices of action. Although the God-centered approach is shown to be the most practical, Centore argues for a natural moral law that avoids any specific theology. Each chapter discusses the historical and theoretical background of the approaches and two possible compromises. The work is enlivened with examples of possible contexts in which moral decisions must take place. Various ethical dilemmas are presented with an examination of the potential consequences of applying either the atheistic or the theistic ethical approach. Centore's argument is complex, but he explains the elements clearly and his conclusion is strengthened by real-life cases and an extensive Bibliography.
Author : Dr Martin Garrett,Martin Garrett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134967575
Martin Garrett's comprehensive collection presents and explains the history of the critical reception to Massinger's work from the early seventeenth to the late nineteenth century. The volume includes extensive selections from the writings of Pepys, Goldsmith, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Lamb and Swinburne, as well as briefer comments from Scott, Byron and Keats. Responses to Massinger's plays from writers as diverse as Boswell, Mrs Thrale, Dickens and Elizabeth Barrett Browning are discussed in Martin Garrett's introduction, which also includes an account of the plays' original political and theatrical context.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555024426
Author : John J. Conley
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781501722653
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.