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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... thou hast forgotten to demand that truly which thou wouldest truly know . What a devil hast thou to do with the time of the day ? ( 1.2.1-6 ) The disdainful , contemptuous tone of this speech , generative of glorious wit , to be sure ...
... thou hast forgotten to demand that truly which thou wouldest truly know . What a devil hast thou to do with the time of the day ? ( 1.2.1-6 ) The disdainful , contemptuous tone of this speech , generative of glorious wit , to be sure ...
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... thou would highly , That thou wouldst holily . ( 1.5.15-20 ) The complete representation , therefore , defines Macbeth's ambition as essentially the extreme of courageous magnanimity . Since he would be great , he aims at the " great ...
... thou would highly , That thou wouldst holily . ( 1.5.15-20 ) The complete representation , therefore , defines Macbeth's ambition as essentially the extreme of courageous magnanimity . Since he would be great , he aims at the " great ...
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... thou heard'st cry , which thou saw'st sink . ( lines 13-32 ) Hence , Prospero , in keeping with the virtue of prudence whose “ quasi- integral parts " ( 2a2ae 49 ) include consideration of the past ( memoria ) and future ( providentia ...
... thou heard'st cry , which thou saw'st sink . ( lines 13-32 ) Hence , Prospero , in keeping with the virtue of prudence whose “ quasi- integral parts " ( 2a2ae 49 ) include consideration of the past ( memoria ) and future ( providentia ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Acknowledgments | 15 |
Sidneys Apology and Shakespeares Poetic | 21 |
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