Virtue and Ethics in the Twelfth Century

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-90-04-14327-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 130, 394 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 248 mm, Gewicht: 842 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bejczy, István

Newhauser, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, István P. Bejczy

MONASTIC THOUGHT
1. Medieval Ethics and the Illusion of Interiority: Augustine, Anselm, Abelard, M.B. Pranger
2. The Devil and Virtue: Anselm of Canterbury’s Universal Order, Arjo Vanderjagt
3. In Conscience’s Court: Abelard’s Ethics as a Science of the Self, Willemien Otten
4. Hugh of Saint Victor’s Virtue: Ambivalence and Gratuity, Ineke van ’t Spijker
5. Bernard of Clairvaux’s De gradibus humilitatis et superbiae and the Postmodern Revisioning of Moral Philosophy, John Kitchen
6. Claustrum animae: The Community as Example for Interior Reform, Jeroen W.J. Laemers

SCHOLASTIC THOUGHT
7. The Problem of Natural Virtue, István P. Bejczy
8. Rethinking Lying in the Twelfth Century, Marcia L. Colish
9. Beyond Stoicism and Aristotelianism: John of Salisbury’s Skepticism and Twelfth-Century Moral Philosophy, Cary J. Nederman
10. The Conflictus uitiorum et uirtutum Attributed to Stephen Langton, Riccardo Quinto
11. The Virtues of “Rabbi Moyses”, George R. Wilkes

DIFFUSION OF MORAL THEMES
12. Justice and Liberality: Opposition to Avarice in the Twelfth Century, Richard G. Newhauser
13. Virtue and Politics in English Historical Writing, Björn Weiler
14. Charlemagne and the Young Prince: A Didactic Poem on the Cardinal Virtues by Giles of Paris (c. 1200), Céline Billot-Vilandrau

Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Subjects

Über Autor(innen)

István P. Bejczy, Ph.D. (1994) in History, has published on medieval and Renaissance cultural history (including La Lettre du Prêtre Jean and Erasmus and the Middle Ages). He directs a research programme on medieval moral consciousness at the Radboud University Nijmegen.

Richard G. Newhauser, Ph.D. (1986) in English, has published on medieval moral thought (including The Treatise on Vices and Virtues in Latin and the Vernacular and The Early History of Greed). He is Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Trinity University, San Antonio.