...Markku Peltonen This article examines the role and place of virtues in early modern English grammar schools (ca. 1558 – 1640). It argues that schoolboys were exposed to the questions of moral philosophy and virtues throughout their time in the grammar school. From their elementary classes in Latin...

... and normative authority of nature, but also in complex dialogue with contemporary pastoral theory and moral philosophy (which rejected wet-nursing), as well as contemporary social practices, values, and beliefs. Physicians recognized maternal breastfeeding as the best and most natural option because...

... the impoverishment of modern moral philosophy in the face of radical evil. Though most of them would cavil with the rubric “virtue ethics,” all felt the strong desire to find alternatives to the dominant moral philosophy of emotivism. Iris Murdoch, Gillian Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Charles Taylor, and Alasdair...

.... As Robert Boyle put it, the study of nature would instill “sentiments of devotion and particular virtues.” This feature of experimental science represents a significant link with the classical notion of philosophy (including natural philosophy), which stressed the importance of the moral formation...

... language philosophy is able to give a much better rendering of the working of this tradition than other pictures of language because of its insistence that the meaning of a word lies in its use. Yet the influential traditions of thinking about so-­called “morality plays” stubbornly persist...

...-Machiavellian lawyer Innocent Gentillet during the French wars of religion. Against Gentillet and with Plutarch, Montaigne fully acknowledges the importance of ingenuity as “the animal outside” in human sociability. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 early modern French politics moral...

... will not focus on the many notable philosophers who were Masons, nor upon the overt references to “philosophy” in Masonic texts, nor upon Masonic claims that the brotherhood inculcated its members with “the enlightenment of Reason and Philosophy.” 5 Historians agree that new scientific, moral...

... of poets to place their own opinions in the mouths of their great characters,” could hardly have chosen a more authoritative spokesperson for his views.2 One might assume, then, that Milton aligns himself with those Christian thinkers who, following Augustine, dismissed pagan moral philosophy...

... flowers, to be disposed at your discretion, either in garlands to weare on your head, or else in nosgaies to beare in breest about you” (sig. A2v). In another book in the genre, The nosegay of morall philosophie (1580), the translator Thomas Crew similarly presents his nosegay of “slips,” gathered...

... in the humanities” has evidently been in heavy circulation since the early 1940s; see Wayne Bivens-­Tatum, “The ‘Crisis’ of the Humanities,” Academic Librarian: On Libraries, Rhetoric, Poetry, History, and Moral Philosophy (blog), Princeton University, Nov. 5, 2010, httpblogs...

.... The Insight of Unbelievers: Nicholas of Lyra and Christian Reading of Jewish Text in the Later Middle Ages. Jewish Culture and Contexts. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. 225 pp.; 6 illus. $55.00. Kraye, Jill, and Risto Saarinen, eds. Moral Philosophy on the Threshold of Modernity...

... was “intellectual morality,” a commitment to using argument responsibly, to discover how things really were, rather than using them to bolster a parti pris for example. It is in part the systematic nature of philosophy that prevented the decon- textualized form of argument for its own sake that, Plato...

... of an ability to feel shame or reverence toward others: it is an enduring disposition that maintains good behavior, not a short- lived mental episode of feeling fear that occurs after the supposed transgression of norms. De officiis, Cicero s preeminent work on moral philosophy, endorses principles of ethically...

.... $55.00. 462  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 36.2 / 2006 McAleer, G. J. Ecstatic Morality and Sexual Politics: A Catholic and Anti- totalitarian Theory of the Body. Moral Philosophy and Moral Theology (series). New York: Fordham University Press, 2005. xvii, 237 pp. $55.00. [Study...

.... $55.00. 462  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 36.2 / 2006 McAleer, G. J. Ecstatic Morality and Sexual Politics: A Catholic and Anti- totalitarian Theory of the Body. Moral Philosophy and Moral Theology (series). New York: Fordham University Press, 2005. xvii, 237 pp. $55.00. [Study...

... in terms of intrinsic and extrinsic principles, in the prologue to I-­II.49. 4 Aquinas begins with some general comments about habits (ST  I-­II.49  –  54) and then looks in greater detail at the virtues (I-­II.55  –  67). 5 See Ralph McInerny, Ethica Thomistica: The Moral Philosophy...

... Virtue,” shows us these tensions at work in the greatest English author of the seventeenth century. Even if the Son of God in Milton’s Paradise Regained dismisses the wisdom of classical thought, Fallon shows that Milton’s own relationship to pagan moral philosophy was more complicated...

... appears to contradict Irenius’s agenda in A View, but if we consider the plainly voiced imperialist ideology of the poem, I must conclude by con- fronting why Spenser’s epic denies the economic motive at the heart of the English imperial project. In “The Failure of Moral Philosophy...

... Ethic (which Tawney subjects to a powerful critique) by historians who ought to know better.76 Tawney examines what Simpson might call a reformist tradition of medieval moral philosophy, one that interrelates all social orders through limitations on usury and racked rents. Unlike Simpson...

... In this dialogue, this distinction goes hand in hand with Socrates’s account of the importance of philosophy to moral education. Socrates distinguishes between those few who “purified themselves sufficiently with philosophy” and, after death, will escape the prison of the body and those who have committed...