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Virtue Ethics and Education from Late Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century
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English
Published/Copyright:
2018
About this book
This book argues that premodern societies were characterised by the quest for Ÿvirtue.Œ
Author / Editor information
Hellerstedt Andreas :
Andreas Hellerstedt (editor) is an intellectual historian (Stockholm University) specialized on the early modern period. His main research interests lies in political thought in Northern Europe ca 1650-1750. Since 2013, he has been the research coordinator of the inter-disciplinary project Teaching Virtue, based at the Department of History, Stockholm University and funded by Riksbankens jubileumsfond. He is co-editor of the recent volume Shaping Heroic Virtue, the result of a previous project out of which the current project grew.
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Frontmatter
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Table of contents
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List of figures
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction
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Eustratius of Nicaea as a source for the Neoplatonist notion of levels of virtue in the Early Latin commentators on the Nicomachean Ethics
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Teaching virtue through the law
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The tree and its fruit
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Fostering civic virtue
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Dancing virtue
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The path to virtue
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Virtue and duty
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The Royal Rhetor
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Antagonistic parents in Frances Brooke ’s The Old Maid and The History of Julia Mandeville
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Cracks in the mirror
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Index
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
November 19, 2018
eBook ISBN:
9789048535101
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
352
Illustrations:
9
Coloured Illustrations:
4
eBook ISBN:
9789048535101
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
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BY-NC-ND 4.0
