The purpose of the project Teaching virtue is to bring together teachers, researchers and students with a shared interest and competence in the history of philosophy, culture and ideas in a series of seminars, conferences and courses within a creative research environment at the Center for Medieval Studies.
The common theme uniting the participants is the educational history of virtue ethics. This subject is explored in a variety of different contexts, using historical sources in the classical languages as well as all the major modern European vernaculars. Virtue ethics is studied from a broad societal perspective, with major focus on, among other things, it’s role in the formation of class- and gender identities.
The project as a whole aims at understanding how the problems of teaching virtue were handled from Antiquity through to the 18th century, for instance: Was it considered possible to learn virtue at all, or was it thought to be dependent more on innate qualities and talents? Who were considered to be suited to be students of virtue, and who the appropriate teachers? These issues are being approached using a wide variety of sources, such as philosophical treatises, literature of different genres, plays, ballets, opera, visual art and music. We encourage applicants with relevant language skills, an interdisciplinary approach, and a trans-national competence concerning pre-modern source materials in particular.
PhD student position at the Faculty of Humanities
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2013-06-10, 00:00
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2025-09-29, 17:01
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Diana Ignat
