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Virtue ethics in the Middle Ages : commentaries on Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics, 1200 -1500 / edited by István P. Bejczy

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Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
Physical Description
1 online resource (vi, 374 pages) : illustrations
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Bejczy, István Pieter, 1965-
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English.
Contents
The structure of the soul, intellectual virtues, and the ethical ideal of masters of arts in early commentaries on the Nichomachean 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 -- 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 -- Heroic virtue in the commentary tradition on the Nicomachean ethics in the second half of the thirteenth century / Iacopo Costa -- Utrumfelix indigeat amicis : the reception of the Aristotelian theory of friendship at the Arts Faculty in Paris / Marco Toste -- 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 Blažek -- Teaching ethics at the University of Vienna : the making of a commentary at the Faculty of Arts (a case study) / Christoph Flüeler.
Summary
Ever since its rediscovery in the thirteenth century, Aristotle's ""Nicomachean Ethics"" has figured as a prime model of philosophical ethics in Western moral thought. This collection of articles for the first time surveys the medieval tradition of commentaries on the work from its origins to the fifteenth century. The twelve articles concentrate on the moral and intellectual virtues around which Aristotle's ethic revolves and in many cases compare the discussion of the virtues in the medieval commentaries with contemporary theological debate. Taken together, the articles show the diverse and.
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ISBN
9789047423133 (electronic bk.)
9047423135 (electronic bk.)
1281939722
9781281939722
9786611939724
6611939725
9004163166 (Cloth)
9789004163164 (hardback ; alk. paper)
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text file
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-367) and indexes.
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