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

• Main Author: Mitchell, Jeff (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: 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...

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.