The vices of learning : morality and knowledge at early modern universities

The vices of learning : morality and knowledge at early modern universities / by Sari Kivisto.

In The Vices of Learning Sari Kivistö examines scholarly vices, such as pride, plagiarism and the desire for fame, in over one hundred Latin dissertations and treatises from the late Baroque and early Enlightenment periods.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kivisto, Sari
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, ©2014.
Series:Education and society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Subjects:
Education, Higher > Moral and ethical aspects > Europe > History.
Education, Higher > Europe > History.
EDUCATION > Higher.
Education, Higher
Education, Higher > Moral and ethical aspects
Europe
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction: Academic Self-criticism in the Early Modern Period; Dissertations on Scholarly Vices; Social Criticism of Scholars; Religious Critics of Errors Made by the Learned; Classifying the Vices of the Intellect and the Will; Vices of Learning Chapter by Chapter; Chapter 2 Self-love and Pride; Preliminary Definitions; Good and Bad Self-love (philautia); Obstinacy as a Symptom of Self-love; Similar to God: Pride (fastus); The Dogs of the Nile: Autodidacts and Self-sufficiency; Heads Full of Wind and Other Images of Pride.
  • Spitzel's Historical Examples of PridePedantry and Thrasonism; Humility and Modesty; Conclusion; Chapter 3 The Desire for Fame; Meursius on Glory, Fame and Ambition; Fame and Public Recognition; Literary Machiavellianism, Academic Deceit and Avarice; The Itch to Write; Agraphia; Bibliotaphia; Plagiarism and Academic Thieves; Titulomania; Conclusion; Chapter 4 Logomachia and Futile Quarrelling; Disputations in Schools and Universities; Sophists and Other Wicked Disputants; Sectarians and Eclectics; Werenfels on Word-battles; Obscurity and Misunderstanding; Grammar Wars; Logomachies in Law.
  • Pleasure, Ambition and AvariceAdvice on Moral Improvement; On Modesty, Again; Conclusions about Peacefulness; Chapter 5 Curiosity and Novelties; Against Novelties; Bad Curiosity and Ambition; Measuring the World versus Knowing the Self; Curious Fields of Knowledge; Examples of Curious Scholars; Atheism, Curiosity and Singularity; Operative Curiosity; Conclusions about Curiosity and Useful Learning; Chapter 6 Bad Manners and Old Learning; Unfashionable Scholars; Bad Communication; Solitude and Misanthropy; The Silence of the Philosophers; Seniority versus Youth; Conclusion.
  • Chapter 7 Conclusions about Morality and KnowledgeAppendix; Bibliography; Index.

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