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The seven deadly sins are pride, envy, anger, sloth, gluttony, greed, and lust. The seven virtues are prudence, fortitude, temperance, justice, faith, hope, and love. 'The Virtues and Vices in the Arts' brings all of them together and for the first time lays out their history in a collection of the most important philosophical, religious, literary, and art-historical works. Starting with the Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian antecedents, this anthology of source documents traces the tradition of virtues and vices through its cultural apex during the medieval era and then into their continued development and transformation from the Renaissance to the present. This anthology includes excerpts of Plato's 'Republic', the Bible, Dante's 'Purgatorio', and the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche and C.S. Lewis. Also included are works of art from medieval manuscripts; paintings by Giotto, Veronese, and Paul Cadmus; prints by Brueghel; and a photograph by Oscar Rejlander. What these works show is the vitality and richness of the virtues and vices in the arts from their origins to the present.

Table of Contents:
List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction A House Divided Virtues, Vices, Sins, and Gifts of the Spirit Constellations Part I Foundations Human Potential and Protection I Human Potential and Protection II Plato's The Republic Aristotle's The Nicomachean Ethics Cicero's Of Duties Proverbs Isaiah Matthew Paul's Letters Part II Codification of the Virtues and Vices Tertullian's The Shows Prudentius's Psychomachia Evagrius of Pontus's On the Eight Thoughts Gregory the Great's Morals on the Book of Job Part III The Medieval Apex Divine Endowment The Struggle Contraries Cured by Contraries The Summa Psychomachia Illustrations Illustrations of the Speculum Virginum Hildegard of Bingen's Ordo Virtutum Notre Dame of Amiens Twelve Virtues and Twelve Vices Giotto's Virtues and Vices in the Arena Chapel Dante's Purgatorio Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Paintings in the Palazzo Pubblico, Siena William Langland's Piers Plowman Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Parson's Tale' Part IV The Transformation of the Virtues and Vices Divine Endowment II Struggle II The Virtues and Vices in Everyday Life and in Death The Vitality of Vice Piero del Pollaiuolo's Seven Virtues Andrea Mantegna's Minerva Chases the Vices from the Garden of Virtue Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince Bernaert van Orley (Designer) and Workshop of Pieter van Aelst (Weaver) The Honors Peter Brueghel the Elder's Virtues and Vices Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene Part V The Tradition Extended The Struggle III The Virtues and Vices in Everyday Life and in Death II The Vitality of Vice II Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil and The Antichrist Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's The Seven Deadly Sins C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity Paul Cadmus's The Seven Deadly Sins Epilogue Appendix: Key Virtues and Vices Works Bibliography Acknowledgment of Copyright Index

About the Author :
Shawn Tucker is Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at Elon University. He was recently the guest editor for a special issue of 'Interdisciplinary Humanities'. His has also received a National Endowment for the Humanities Enduring Questions grant to develop a course on Pride, Humility, and the Good Life.

Review :
"Shawn Tucker's anthology offers a delightful journey through classic works of philosophy, theology, art, and literature with a heavy dose of wit. The structure of the book is crucial to its success. ... With its well-chosen selections, insightful argument, and memorable imagery, Tucker's anthology is a useful collection for those interested in a wide variety of fields. Students of history or philosophy, art or literature, and theology or ethics will find value in the pages of this book, as it promises to serve as a resource to which they return again and again." - Derek R. Davenport, Reviews in Religion and Theology, Volume 24, Issue 3, July 2017


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780718894047
  • Publisher: James Clarke & Co Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Lutterworth Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 302
  • Weight: 571 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0718894049
  • Publisher Date: 27 Aug 2015
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: A Sourcebook
  • Width: 153 mm


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