Virtue and ethics in the twelfth century / edited by Istvan P. Bejczy and Richard G. Newhauser.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bejczy, István Pieter, 1965-

Newhauser, Richard, 1947-

Series:

Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 130.

Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 130

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Virtue--Congresses.

Virtue.

Ethics--Congresses.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (399 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume analyses the renewal of Western moral thought in the twelfth century. This renewal was marked by a burgeoning of increasingly systematized texts, a lively reception of ancient moral philosophy and a greater emphasis on the psychology of the moral agent. Five contributions are devoted to monastic morality (Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux, Hugh of Folieto, Hugh of Saint Victor, Peter Abelard); another five to (proto-)scholastic thought (John of Salisbury, Peter Abelard, Stephen Langton, the idea of natural virtue, the justification of lying); three discuss moral issues in a wider social context (liberality vs. avarice, royal justice in England, the cardinal virtues and the French monarchy). The two remaining contributions explore ethical traditions in Islamic and Jewish philosophy. With contributions by István P. Bejczy, Céline Billot-Vilandreau, Marcia L. Colish, Jeroen Laemers, John Kitchen, Cary J. Nederman, Richard G. Newhauser, Willemien Otten, Burcht Pranger, Riccardo Quinto, Ineke van ’t Spijker, Arjo Vanderjagt, Björn Weiler and George Wilkes.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / István P. Bejczy and Richard G. Newhauser

Introduction / István P. Bejczy

Medieval Ethics and the Illusion of Interiority: Augustine, Anselm, Abelard / M.B. Pranger

The Devil and Virtue: Anselm of Canterbury’s Universal Order / Arjo Vanderjagt

In Conscience’s Court: Abelard’s Ethics as a Science of the Self / Willemien Otten

Hugh of Saint Victor’s Virtue: Ambivalence and Gratuity / Ineke van ’t Spijker

Bernard of Clairvaux’s De gradibus humilitatis et superbiae and the Postmodern Revisioning of Moral Philosophy / John Kitchen

Claustrum animae: The Community as Example for Interior Reform / Jeroen W.J. Laemers

The Problem of Natural Virtue / István P. Bejczy

Rethinking Lying in the Twelfth Century / Marcia L. Colish

Beyond Stoicism and Aristotelianism: John of Salisbury’s Skepticism and Twelfth-Century Moral Philosophy / Cary J. Nederman

The Conflictus uitiorum et uirtutum Attributed to Stephen Langton / Riccardo Quinto

The Virtues of “Rabbi Moyses” / George R. Wilkes

Justice and Liberality: Opposition to Avarice in the Twelfth Century / Richard G. Newhauser

Royal Justice and Royal Virtue in William of Malmesbury’s Historia Novella and Walter Map’s De Nugis Curialium / Björn Weiler

Charlemagne and the Young Prince: A Didactic Poem on the Cardinal Virtues by Giles of Paris (C. 1200) / Céline Billot-Vilandrau

Bibliography / István P. Bejczy and Richard G. Newhauser

Index of Names / István P. Bejczy and Richard G. Newhauser

Index of Subjects / István P. Bejczy and Richard G. Newhauser.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-382) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-280-86785-X

9786610867851

1-4294-5290-0

90-474-0727-X

1-4337-0437-4

OCLC:

476024744

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047407270 DOI