Virtue ethics and education from Late Antiquity to the eighteenth century / edited by Andreas Hellerstedt.

This book argues that pre-modern societies were characterized by the quest for 'virtue '. The concept of virtue, complicated and much fought-over, permeated society, encouraging wisdom, courage, and justice, while simultaneously legitimizing social hierarchies based on sex and nationality....

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Other Authors:	Hellerstedt, Andreas (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]
Series:	Knowledge communities (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 4.
Subjects:	Ethics > History. Virtue > History. Moral education > History. Ethics. Moral education. Virtue. History.