Virtue's Own Feature: Shakespeare and the Virtue Ethics Tradition"Using an historical approach, Virtue's Own Feature explores nine of Shakespeare's most successful works as representations of the passions, virtues, and vices as they are complexly and extensively set out by Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas." "The work first undertakes to describe the late Elizabethan poetic of Sir Philip Sidney, which is demonstrated to be Shakespeare's poetic as well. Second, this study explores Shakespeare's plays in relation to the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition of moral philosophy, one important branch of a major sixteenth-century philosophical tradition."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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... central figure in comedy , whether Portia , Petruchio , or Prospero , not only represents a virtue but becomes an architect of virtue and happiness as well , bringing all to a successful , harmonious conclusion . And , contrariwise ...
... central figure in comedy , whether Portia , Petruchio , or Prospero , not only represents a virtue but becomes an architect of virtue and happiness as well , bringing all to a successful , harmonious conclusion . And , contrariwise ...
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... central tradition : one humanist and basing itself on Aristotle's Ethics , employing the Aristotelian distinction between moral and intellectual virtue , following the Aristotelian list of virtues , and emphasizing the final goal of ...
... central tradition : one humanist and basing itself on Aristotle's Ethics , employing the Aristotelian distinction between moral and intellectual virtue , following the Aristotelian list of virtues , and emphasizing the final goal of ...
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... central dynamic agon between Angelo and Isabella , first as they express dispositions of severity and clemency over the punishment of Claudio , then followed by those of lust and virginity with respect to Isabella's chastity , over ...
... central dynamic agon between Angelo and Isabella , first as they express dispositions of severity and clemency over the punishment of Claudio , then followed by those of lust and virginity with respect to Isabella's chastity , over ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Acknowledgments | 15 |
Sidneys Apology and Shakespeares Poetic | 21 |
Copyright | |
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