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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: On the Decline of the Genteel Virtues
    sub title: From Gentility to Technocracy
  name:
    name part: Mitchell, Jeff.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 292 p. 1 illus. online resource.
  abstract: 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 and political leadership, but rather an elite social order. While the gentry in the traditional sense no longer exists, it nevertheless made significant historical contributions, and insofar as we are concerned to understand the present state of human affairs, we need to grasp the nature and import of said contributions. .
  table of contents: Chapter 1. Introduction: On the Ethos of Good Taste or Gentility -- Chapter 2. On the Origins of Aristocracy -- Chapter 3. The Ethos of Gentility in Greco-Roman Antiquity -- Chapter 4. The Ethos of Gentility in Early Confucianism -- Chapter 5. The Ethos of Gentility from the Italian Renaissance to Victorian England -- Chapter 6. American Meritocracy and the Rise of Specialized Elites -- Chapter 7. Conservatism and the Genteel Heritage.
  note: by Jeff Mitchell.
  subject:
    topic: Ethics
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Ethics
  subject:
    topic: Moral Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: History of Philosophy
  classification: BJ1-1725
  classification: 170
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783030203542
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20354-2
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    record creation date: 190531
    record change date: 20191028103054.0
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