Book of Donmon Teith

Contemplates the meaning and importance of such classic virtues as sensitivity, beauty, prudence, compassion, intellect, and tact.

Worldly Virtue argues that general discussions of virtue need to be complemented by attention to specific virtues. Each chapter addresses a single virtue, most

There is a fundamental discrepancy between man as he is and man as he could be, if only he recognized his true being and purpose. Ethics is the discipline by wh

This work reveals how a distrust of learned and habituated virtue shaped both early modern Christian moral reflection and secular forms of ethical thought. The

Sources are the raw material of history, but where the written word has traditionally been seen as the principal source, today historians are increasingly recog