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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bejczy, István Pieter, 1965-

Series:

Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 160.

Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 160

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Aristotle. Nicomachean ethics.

Aristotle.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The early thirteenth century

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

Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas

In war and peace : the virtue of courage in the writings of Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas / Jorn Muller

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

The late thirteenth century

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 thirteenth and fourteenth centuries

The cardinal virtues in medieval commentaries on the Nicomachean ethics, 1250-1350 / Istvan 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 Blazek

The fifteenth century

Teaching ethics at the University of Vienna : the making of a commentary at the Faculty of Arts (a case study) / Christoph Flueler.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-367) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-281-93972-2

9786611939724

90-474-2313-5

OCLC:

315597437

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004163164.i-376 DOI