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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Main Author: Kristjánsson, Kristján (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 1998
In: Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 1998, Volume: 1, Issue: 4, Pages: 397-422
Further subjects:B Humility
B Shame
B morality: ancient
B Icelandic sagas
B Aristotle's megalopsychia
B Moral Luck
B Modern
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