On the Decline of the Genteel Virtues
From Gentility to Technocracy
This innovative book proposes that what we think of as moral conscience is essentially the exercise of reflective judgment on the goods and ends arising in interpersonal relations, and that such judgment constitutes a form of taste. Through an ambitious historical survey Mitchell shows that the constant pendant to taste was an educational and cultural ideal, namely, that of the gentleman, whether he was an ancient Greek citizen-soldier, Roman magistrate, Confucian scholar-bureaucrat, Renaissance courtier, or Victorian grandee. Mitchell argues that it was neither an ethical doctrine nor methodology that provided the high cultures with moral a…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-3-030-20354-2
- EAN: 9783030203542
- Produktnummer: 31706267
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 292 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'315 KB
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2019
- Abbildungen: 1 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, Bibliographie
Über den Autor
Jeff Mitchell is Professor of Philosophy at Arkansas Tech University, USA. The author of 'Individualism and Moral Character: Karen Horney's Depth Psychology' (2014), Mitchell's research interests lie primarily in the fields of ethics, psychoanalysis and sociology.
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