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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... according to nature and natural law , in rationally di- recting the passions between the extremes of excess and deficiency , in prudently taking into consideration intention and the circumstances of an 50 VIRTUE'S OWN FEATURE.
... according to nature and natural law , in rationally di- recting the passions between the extremes of excess and deficiency , in prudently taking into consideration intention and the circumstances of an 50 VIRTUE'S OWN FEATURE.
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... nature , ” etc. Third , since the imitation of such a universal form of nature might render a passion or virtue too abstract , there is an awareness and consideration of the importance of adaptation to concrete circumstances " to show ...
... nature , ” etc. Third , since the imitation of such a universal form of nature might render a passion or virtue too abstract , there is an awareness and consideration of the importance of adaptation to concrete circumstances " to show ...
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... nature , tradition , and their limiting horizons and open only to a world of unlimited and undetermined possibilities . But Shake- speare's world is not that of Kant or John Stuart Mill . The determinations of nature assume great ...
... nature , tradition , and their limiting horizons and open only to a world of unlimited and undetermined possibilities . But Shake- speare's world is not that of Kant or John Stuart Mill . The determinations of nature assume great ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Acknowledgments | 15 |
Sidneys Apology and Shakespeares Poetic | 21 |
Copyright | |
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