Article: Aristotle's Ethics in the Italian Renaissance (ca. 1300-1650): The Universities and the Problem of Moral Education.(Reviews)(Book Review)

David A. Lines. Aristotle's Ethics in the Italian Renaissance (ca. 1300-1650): The Universities and the Problem of Moral Education.

Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2002. xxiv + 614 pp. index. append. bibl. $140. ISBN: 90-04-12085-8.

This large book studies the history of the teaching of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics in Italian universities by examining over 160 Latin commentaries and translations produced between 1300 and 1650. It begins with an introduction in which the author finds fault with interpretations of humanism and humanistic education by some scholars and agrees with others. Lines sees humanism as conservative and wanting in ...

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