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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... various scenes . But , aside from these minor matters , it is the general configuration of Thomistic ethics , specifically of vindicatio , its extremes and proper moderation , together with various shifts in intention and circumstance ...
... various scenes . But , aside from these minor matters , it is the general configuration of Thomistic ethics , specifically of vindicatio , its extremes and proper moderation , together with various shifts in intention and circumstance ...
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... various characters like Claudio , Lucio , and Barnardine imply , the fundamental concern of the play is with tem- perance as well as justice . 3 What I shall argue here is that the ethical patterns of Measure for Measure derive ...
... various characters like Claudio , Lucio , and Barnardine imply , the fundamental concern of the play is with tem- perance as well as justice . 3 What I shall argue here is that the ethical patterns of Measure for Measure derive ...
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... various themes and genres expressing humanist moral philosophy , and Kraye , " Moral Philosophy , " 303-86 , surveys the philosophical schools and their doctrines . Neither covers Thomistic moral thought . Essential for Renaissance ...
... various themes and genres expressing humanist moral philosophy , and Kraye , " Moral Philosophy , " 303-86 , surveys the philosophical schools and their doctrines . Neither covers Thomistic moral thought . Essential for Renaissance ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Acknowledgments | 15 |
Sidneys Apology and Shakespeares Poetic | 21 |
Copyright | |
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