The Cardinal Virtues in the Middle Ages

The Cardinal Virtues in the Middle Ages
Author: István Pieter Bejczy
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2011-08-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004210148

Exploring the history of the cardinal virtues from patristic times to the late fourteenth century, this book offers a comprehensive view of the development of moral debate in the Latin Middle Ages.

The Cardinal Virtues in the Middle Ages

The Cardinal Virtues in the Middle Ages
Author: István Bejczy
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2011-08-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 900421013X

Despite its non-Christian origins, the scheme of the cardinal virtues (prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance) found wide acceptance in medieval theology, philosophy, and religious literature. The present study is the first to investigate the history of the four virtues in the Latin Middle Ages from patristic times to the late fourteenth century. It examines the position of the cardinal virtues between religious and secularized conceptions of morality and attempts to reveal some distinctly Christian aspects of medieval virtue theory notwithstanding its manifest indebtedness to ancient ethics. Exploring learned and popularizing sources alike, including much unedited material, this study covers a broad spectrum of moral debate during ten centuries of Western intellectual history.

Virtue Ethics in the Middle Ages

Virtue Ethics in the Middle Ages
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2007-11-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 9047423135

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 surprisingly creative ways in which medieval intellectuals during three centuries combined widely diverging currents of ancient and Christian moral thought in order to formulate a philosophical ethic suitable to their times. Contributors include: István P. Bejczy, Pavel Blažek, Valeria A. Buffon, Iacopo Costa, Christoph Flüeler, Tobias Hoffmann, Roberto Lambertini, Jörn Müller, Matthias Perkams, Marco Toste, Martin J. Tracey, and Irene Zavattero.

The Cardinal Virtues

The Cardinal Virtues
Author: Saint Thomas (Aquinas)
Publisher: PIMS
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2004
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780888442895

"These translations from the Latin works of Thomas Aquinas, Albert the Great, and Philip the Chancellor concentrate on the four cardinal virtues - prudence, justice, courage, and temperance - first identified by Plato as essential requirements for living a happy and morally good life." "An historical introduction traces the development of the doctrine of four cardinal virtues from Greek philosophy through the thirteenth century. The treatment isolates three stages in this development: (1) Greek and Roman Philosophi: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, early Stoics, Cicero, and Seneca; (2) early Christian Sancti: Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine, and Gregory; and (3) medieval schoolmen (Magistri): Master Peter Lombard, Philip the Chancellor, Albert, and Aquinas."--BOOK JACKET

The Cambridge Companion to Virtue Ethics

The Cambridge Companion to Virtue Ethics
Author: Daniel C. Russell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2013-02-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107001161

This volume addresses the history, future and contemporary application of virtue ethics.

The New Southern Gentleman

The New Southern Gentleman
Author: Jim Booth
Publisher: Watchmaker Publishing
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2002
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780972178600

"Daniel Randolph Deal is a Southern aristocrat, having the required bloodline, but little of the nobility. A man resistant to the folly of ethics, he prefers a selective, self-indulgent morality. He is a confessed hedonist, albeit responsibly so."--Back cover

The Virtues

The Virtues
Author: Pope Benedict XVI
Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor
Total Pages: 91
Release: 2010-10-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 161278108X

"The truly great thing in Christianity, which does not dispense one from small, daily things but must not be concealed by them either, is this ability to come into contact with God." -- Pope Benedict XVI One of the greatest spiritual teachers of our day, Pope Benedict XVI has frequently spoken about the pursuit of virtue. In this series of excerpts from his homilies, addresses, and encyclicals, the Holy Father draws on the lives of saints, the Catechism, and common experiences to bring us into a deeper understanding of the virtues and how to cultivate them in our lives so that we can grow closer to the Lord.

Virtue Ethics in the Middle Ages

Virtue Ethics in the Middle Ages
Author: István Pieter Bejczy
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004163166

This collection surveys the tradition of medieval commentaries on Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" from its thirteenth-century origins to the fifteenth century, concentrating on the conception of the moral and intellectual virtues in a continuous interplay of ancient and Christian moral thought.

The Four Cardinal Virtues

The Four Cardinal Virtues
Author: Josef Pieper
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Total Pages: 247
Release: 1990-03-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0268089892

In The Four Cardinal Virtues, Joseph Pieper delivers a stimulating quartet of essays on the four cardinal virtues. He demonstrates the unsound overvaluation of moderation that has made contemporary morality a hollow convention and points out the true significance of the Christian virtues.