Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0057541

Zusammenfassung

This project aims to provide a new interpretation of early modern ethics and its role in shaping European culture. It is based on the claim that early modernity was not the age of the demise of virtue, as is commonly argued, but of its renewed vigour. The ways in which virtue was implemented into early modern society, and how 'traditional' models of virtue ethics reacted to the fundamental changes that occurred at the time will be investigated. The main source for this research is the Ethica section in the book collection of duke August the Younger (1579-1666), preserved in today's Her...