Shaping Heroic Virtue: Studies in the Art and Politics of Supereminence in Europe and Scandinavia by Andreas Hellerstedt, Stefano Fogelberg Rota

Brill's Studies in Intellectual History #249

Shaping Heroic Virtue: Studies in the Art and Politics of Supereminence in Europe and Scandinavia

Andreas Hellerstedt, Stefano Fogelberg Rota

214 pages hardcover 2015

1 edition

nonfiction history philosophy medium-paced
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In his Nichomachean Ethics (VII.I.I), Aristotle suggests the possibility of a perfection of virtue so extreme that it could be characterized as "heroic" or "divine". In Shaping Heroic Virtue, eight scholars from different fields of the humanities ...

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