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On the Decline of the Genteel Virtues: From Gentility to Technocracy

On the Decline of the Genteel Virtues: From Gentility to Technocracy

Mitchell, Jeff

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Philosophy

ISBN10: 3030203530
ISBN13: 9783030203535
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Jun 14 2019
Pages: 292
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This innovative book proposes that what we think of as moral conscience is essentially the exercise of reflective judgment on the goods and ends arising in interpersonal relations, and that such judgment constitutes a form of taste. Through an historical survey Mitchell shows that the constant pendant to taste was an educational and cultural ideal, namely, that of the gentleman, whether he was an ancient Greek citizen-soldier, Roman magistrate, Confucian scholar-bureaucrat, Renaissance courtier, or Victorian grandee. Mitchell argues that it was neither an ethical doctrine nor methodology that provided the high cultures with moral and political leadership, but rather an elite social order. While the gentry in the traditional sense no longer exists, it nevertheless made significant historical contributions, and insofar as we are concerned to understand the present state of human affairs, we need to grasp the nature and import ofsaid contributions.

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