On the decline of the genteel virtues : from gentility to technocracy /: from gentility to technocracy. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jeff Mitchell.
• Authors: Mitchell, Jeff, 1964-
• Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction: On the Ethos of Good Taste or Gentility.- 1. 1. The Antimony of Taste.- 1. 2.The Ethos of Gentility.- 1.3. The Historical origins of the Antimony of Taste.- 1.4. The Relation of Taste to Virtue.- Chapter 2: On the Origins of Aristocracy.- 2.1. The Conquest Theory.- 2. 2. Commercialization.- 2.3. Aristocratic Humanism.- 2.4. Ascetic Supernaturalism.- 2. 5. Hedonistic Materialism.- 2.6. Taking Custom Seriously.- Chapter 3: The Ethos of Gentility in Greco-Roman Antiquity.- 3.1.Ancient Greece: From Warrior-Aristocrat to Citizen-Soldier.- 3.2. Aristotle on the Ideal of the Kalokagthos.- 3.3. Aristotle on the To Kalon.- 3.4. Aristotle on Phronesis.- 3.5. Aristotle's Genteel Republic.- 3.6. Aristotle and the Idea of Taste.- 3.7.The Downfall of the Classical City-State.- 3.8.The Nobilitas of Republican Rome.- 3.9. Cicero's Ethic for the Nobile.- Chapter 4: The Ethos of Gentility in Early Confucianism.- 4.1.The Decline of Feudalism in Ancient China.- 4.2. The Confucian Junzi.- 4.3.Confucian Virtue Ethics.- 4.4.Good Taste and the Confucian Notion of Li.- Chapter 5: The Ethos of Gentility from the Italian Renaissance to Victorian England.- 5.1. Castiglione and The Book of the Courtier.- 5.2.Gracian and The Art of Worldly Wisdom.- 5.3.The French Moralists.- 5.4.The English Gentleman.- 5.5. Shaftesbury and the Commonwealth of Taste.- 5.6. Burke's Defense of the Gentry.- 5.7. J. S. Mill on the Replacement of Aristocracy by Meritocracy.- Chapter 6: American Meritocracy and the Rise of Specialized Elites.- 6.1.The Colonial Gentry.- 6.2.James Fenimore Cooper on the Democratic Gentleman.- 6.3. Dye and Zeigler on American Elitism.- 6.4. From Status Group to Social Class.- 6.5. From University to Multiversity.- Chapter 7: Conservatism and the Genteel Heritage.- 71. Max Weber on Bureaucracy.- 7.2. Talcott Parsons on Collegiality.- 7.3. Deliberative Democracy vs. Monocratic Bureaucracy.- 7.4.The Genteel Political Tradition.- 7.5. Good Taste as the Principle of Gentility.- 7.6. The Moral Nobility of the Gentleman.- 7.7. The Gentleman as Cultural Conservationist .- 7.8.The Genteel Legacy.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 179/.9; Virtue; Values; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030203542; 3030203549
• Related ISBNs: 9783030203535
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 4, 2019).
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