Virtue ethics and education from Late Antiquity to the eighteenth century /
This book argues that pre-modern societies were characterized by the quest for 'virtue '. The concept of virtue, complicated and much fought-over, permeated society, encouraging wisdom, courage, and justice, while simultaneously legitimizing social hierarchies based on sex and nationality....
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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Knowledge communities (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ;
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