Liberating Moral Traditions: Saga Morality and Aristotle's Megalopsychia
It is a matter for both surprise and disappointment that so little has been written from a philosophical perspective about the moral tradition enshrined in Europe's oldest living literature, the Icelandic sagas. The main purpose of the present essay is to start to ameliorate this shortcoming by...
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
1998
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Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 1998, Volume: 1, Issue: 4, Pages: 397-422 |
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Humility
B Shame B morality: ancient B Icelandic sagas B Aristotle's megalopsychia B Moral Luck B Modern |
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