Virtue ethics in the Middle Ages : commentaries on Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics, 1200 -1500

Virtue ethics in the Middle Ages : commentaries on Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics, 1200 -1500 / edited by István P. Bejczy.

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 f...

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Other Authors: Bejczy, István Pieter, 1965-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
Series:Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 160.
Subjects:
Aristotle. > Nicomachean ethics.
Aristoteles > v384-v322 > Ethica Nicomachea
Aristoteles.
Nicomachean ethics (Aristotle)
Ethica Nicomachea.
Ethics.
ethics (philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Ethics
Rezeption
Kommentar
Ethiek.
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Table of Contents:
  • The structure of the soul, intellectual virtues, and the ethical ideal of masters of arts in early commentaries on the Nichomachean ethics / Valeria A. Buffon
  • Moral and intellectual virtues in the earliest Latin commentaries on the Nicomachean ethics / Irene Zavattero
  • Virtus in the Naples commentary on the Ethica nova (MS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, VIII G 8, ff. 4ra-9vb) / Martin J. Tracey
  • In war and peace : the virtue of courage in the writings of Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas / Jörn Müller
  • Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas on magnanimity / Tobias Hoffmann
  • Aquinas's interpretation of the Aristotelian virtue of justice and his doctrine of natural law / Matthias Perkams
  • Heroic virtue in the commentary tradition on the Nicomachean ethics in the second half of the thirteenth century / Iacopo Costa
  • Utrumfelix indigeat amicis : the reception of the Aristotelian theory of friendship at the Arts Faculty in Paris / Marco Toste
  • The cardinal virtues in medieval commentaries on the Nicomachean ethics, 1250-1350 / István P. Bejczy
  • Political prudence in some medieval commentaries on the sixth book of the Nicomachean ethics / Roberto Lambertini
  • The virtue of virginity : the Aristotelian challenge / Pavel Blažek
  • Teaching ethics at the University of Vienna : the making of a commentary at the Faculty of Arts (a case study) / Christoph Flüeler.

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