On the Decline of the Genteel Virtues From Gentility to Technocracy /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Mitchell, Jeff (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Ethics.; Philosophy.; Moral Philosophy.; History of Philosophy.

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 t...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.