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Passionate Deliberation
Mark F. Carr
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Paperback. Series: Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 314.
Despite the modem recovery of virtue theory in ethics, conceptions of temperance remain largely unexamined. In this study I offer an examination ofcertain interpretive threads oftemperance as a virtue beginning in classical philosophy and moving through early to medieval Christian conceptions. I find contemporary notions oftemperance to be sorely lacking when compared and contrasted to these historical conceptions. Aristotelian and Thomistic accounts of temperance are particularly important to the normative statement of temperance I offer here. To fully understand temperance one must recognize its place among the moral virtues, in particular phronesis or practical judgment. Though I place temperance within ... Read more
Despite the modem recovery of virtue theory in ethics, conceptions of temperance remain largely unexamined. In this study I offer an examination ofcertain interpretive threads oftemperance as a virtue beginning in classical philosophy and moving through early to medieval Christian conceptions. I find contemporary notions oftemperance to be sorely lacking when compared and contrasted to these historical conceptions. Aristotelian and Thomistic accounts of temperance are particularly important to the normative statement of temperance I offer here. To fully understand temperance one must recognize its place among the moral virtues, in particular phronesis or practical judgment. Though I place temperance within ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
193
Condition
New
Series
Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789401038928
SKU
V9789401038928
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