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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (1): 81–106.
Published: 01 March 2011
... explicit discourse and cultural practice. Triune ethics theory draws on evolutionary neurobiology, virtue ethics, and multiple human sciences to illustrate three ethics that represent basic neurobiological narratives that are formed by early experience and by climates and cultures. The three basic ethical...
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Poetics Today (2014) 35 (4): 615–633.
Published: 01 December 2014
... offerings, the first culled from the kitchen garden and handed to her disguised guests as hostess gifts and the second constructed purely out of language for the benefit of her lover Florizel, manifest a range of affordances. These include the culinary virtues of herbs, the emotional and theatrical...
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Poetics Today (2007) 28 (2): 191–246.
Published: 01 June 2007
.... Cooper, John 1998 “The Unity of Virtue,” Social Philosophy and Policy 15 : 233 -74. Cropsey, Joseph 1992 “Virtue and Knowledge: On Plato's Protagoras,” Interpretation 21 : 287 -308. Devereux, Daniel 1975 “Protagoras on Courage and Knowledge: Protagoras 351a-b,” Apeiron 9 ( 1...
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (1): 161–168.
Published: 01 March 2005
..., have the power to instruct. Landy • The Paradox of Perfection 163 about it all, but others, like Lazarillo de Tormes, did not care enough about virtue even to be wicked, properly speaking. And then, in the eighteenth century, authors of the Fielding and Goethe...
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Poetics Today (2013) 34 (4): 563–603.
Published: 01 December 2013
... with introduction and notes by Finley M. I. ( London : Penguin ). Vlastos Gregory 1981 “ The Individual as Object of Love in Plato ,” in Platonic Studies , 3 – 34 ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press ). White F. C. 2004 “ Virtue in Plato’s Symposium ,” Classical...
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Poetics Today (2007) 28 (2): 283–302.
Published: 01 June 2007
... to book, chapter, and paragraph. Matthews • Inner Dialogue in Augustine and Anselm 293 Meno: How will you look for [virtue], Socrates, when you do not know at all what it is? How will you aim your search for something you do not know at all? If you should meet...
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (1): 61–92.
Published: 01 February 2017
... the common rendering of the conceptual met- aphor is GOD IS LOVE and not LOVE IS GOD, Forceville notes that Blake may very well have reversed conventional word order by placing source before target in order to highlight God’s virtues. Either reading — source-target or target-source — seems possible...
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (2): 281–299.
Published: 01 June 2020
... interiority, especially when supported, as in these works, by contrastive musical and poetic features highlighting differences of subjectivity and the negotiated nature of attach- ment emotions. The Coronation of Poppaea: Without Passion, Virtue Falls Silent Claudio Monteverdi s (1567 1643) last opera, L...
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Poetics Today (2003) 24 (2): 207–236.
Published: 01 June 2003
... as leaves shed by a tree (see Table , Reader No. or alternatively the fallen leaves can be perceived as blood or tears shed by a boy (see Table , Reader No. In Part II, again, the two-tiered meta- phor wood-tongued virtue can...
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (1): 141–150.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of the aesthetic critic is to distinguish, to analyse, and separate from its adjuncts, the virtue bywhich a picture, a landscape, a fair personality in life or in a book, produces this special impression of beauty or pleasure, to indicate what the source of that impression is, and under what conditions...
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Poetics Today (2007) 28 (3): 443–474.
Published: 01 September 2007
... = Ethics, Part 2, Proposition 44, Corollary 1. .  In his classic study of the influences on Spinoza’s philosophy, Wolfson (1961 [1934]: 233) asserts that Spinoza “modeled his own discussions of goodness, virtue, and happiness, and of the life in accordance with reason” on Aristotle’s Nicomachean...
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Poetics Today (2002) 23 (2): 351–355.
Published: 01 June 2002
..., interaction, and the social import of literature en- join us continuously to scrutinize sociopolitics with a view to advancing a ‘‘democratic culture’’ (ix) on the individual level, notwithstanding (or, ironi- cally, by virtue of ?) Bakhtin’s own silence on the relationship between his analyses...
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Poetics Today (2002) 23 (2): 251–289.
Published: 01 June 2002
...:2 known for its virtuous behavior in order to indicate the virtue of his or her female protagonist, he or she is merely presenting one-half of a cosmologi- cal unity. The ‘‘Romantic’’ notion of the inspired bard involuntarily emitting lyric, producing natural objects rather than fabricated...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (3): 355–368.
Published: 01 September 2016
..., 1960 – 2010 ( New York : Crown Forum ). Pocock J. G. A. 1985 Virtue, Commerce, and History: Essays on Political Thought and History, Chiefly in the Eighteenth Century ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press ). Ross Angus , ed. 1982 Selections from the Tatler...
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (3): 549–568.
Published: 01 September 2017
... in attempting to provide a bal- anced picture. He acknowledges that the Ulster Protestants had both the “vices and virtues of masters, as opposed to the vices and virtues of slaves” (ibid.: 301). The vices of masters that are characteristic of the Ulster Protes- tants include being “imperious, insolent...
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (2): 205–222.
Published: 01 June 2020
..., duplicitous, and opportunistic. Because he cannot imagine any disposition that is blessedly free of such ignoble traits, he blithely projects them onto a gentleman ( junzi what virtue ethicists call a character, someone who effortlessly embodies collectively shared values and who perfectly unifies his inner...
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Poetics Today (2007) 28 (3): 339–362.
Published: 01 September 2007
..., Pneuma, and Tranquillity: Epicurean and Stoic Themes in European Thought , edited by Margaret J. Osler, 39 -65 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). Papy, Jan 2004 “Lipsius' (Neo-)Stoicism: Constancy between Christian Faith and Stoic Virtue,” in Grotius and the Stoa , edited by Hans W. Blom...
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Poetics Today (2008) 29 (3): 603–609.
Published: 01 September 2008
... modernity, taking as its subject the community of outcasts or untouchables whom the doctor-writer purports to speak for by virtue of his “pastoral power” (Foucault). The second and third parts of the book focus on Céline and the question Veg • Céline and French...
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Poetics Today (2000) 21 (3): 521–541.
Published: 01 September 2000
... of Cme (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press). Nehamas, Alexander 1999 “Plato on Imitation and Poetry in Republic X,” in Virtues of Authenticity: Essays on Plato and Socrates , 251 -78 (Princeton,NJ: Princeton University Press). Nussbaum, Martha 1990 Love's Knowledge:Essays on Philosophy...
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Poetics Today (2014) 35 (4): 635–658.
Published: 01 December 2014
... (Il Cortegiano) provides a male-oriented picture of the court lady as a paragon of virtue, wisdom, and moderation whose primary duty is to entertain the company of men: 17. Uberous, from the Latin uber, rich, suggests an abundance of milk. In the second poem of Hymnes of Astraea in Acrosticke...