Constant minds : political virtue and the Lipsian paradigm in England, 1584-1650 / / Adriana McCrea

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910827957703321
• Autore: McCrea Adriana Alice Norma <1951->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1997; ©1997
• ISBN: 1-282-00313-5; 9786612003134; 1-4426-7328-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (375 p.)
• Collana: Mental and Cultural World of Tudor and Stuart England
• Disciplina: 199.493
• Soggetti: Philosophy, English - 16th century; Philosophy, English - 17th century; Stoics; Constancy; Virtue; Political science - Philosophy; Livres numeriques.; History; e-books.; Electronic books.; England Intellectual life 16th century; England Intellectual life 17th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- A NOTE ON TEXTS, SOURCES, TRANSLATIONS, AND CONVENTIONS -- PROLOGUE: RECOVERING THE LIPSIAN PARADIGM -- Introduction: Justus Lipsius and the Doctrine of Constancy -- Seneca, Tacitus, and the Moral Universe of Neostoicism -- The Linguistic Universe of Neostoicism -- The Politics of Neostoicism -- Doctrine: The Method of Constancy -- Neostoicism in France -- Lipsius and English Humanism -- Chapter 1 ; The Constant Courtier: Sir Walter Ralegh in Jacobean England -- Ralegh and the vita activa; Ralegh on Seneca and TacitusRalegh and Political Prudence -- Ralegh's Legacy -- Chapter 2 Francis Bacon and the Advancement of Constancy -- Bacon and the Crisis in Learning -- Bacon and the Crisis in Humanism -- The Advancement of Learning as Apologia for Tacitism -- Bacon and the Stoics -- Bacon on Fortune, Virtue, and Prudence -- Bacon and the vita contemplativa -- Chapter 3 The Constant Friend: Fulke Greville's Life after Sidney -- Greville and the vita activa -- Right Reason and Grevillean Constancy -- Greville, Knowledge, and Prudence; Greville, Virtue, and CounselGreville, Authority, and Obedience -- Chapter 4 A Neostoic Scout: Ben Jonson and the Poetics of Constancy -- Life and Circle -- Learning, Humanism, and Religion: Jonson's Road to Constancy -- Politics and the Poetry of Constancy -- Chapter 5 Joseph Hall and 'That Proud Inconstant Lipsius': The English Face of Neostoicism? -- The Making of 'our English Seneca' -- Competing Moral Paradigms: Hall versus Bacon -- Hall and Theophrastus versus Tacitus -- Hall, Obedience, and Authority -- EPILOGUE: CONSTANCY IN THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION; Notesbibliography -- index -- a -- b -- c -- d -- e -- f -- g -- h -- i -- j -- k -- l -- m -- n -- o -- p -- q -- r -- s -- t -- v -- w -- z
• Sommario/riassunto: In response to the crisis provoked by the Wars of Religion in Europe in the sixteenth century, the Flemish philosopher Lipsius developed a synthesis of stoic morality and Tacitean political analysis called 'the Lipsian paradigm,' or neostoicism. The paradigm espoused the adaptation to prevailing political circumstances, the practice of 'mixed prudence,' (knowing the circumstances in which to apply deceit) and the use of historical example as a guide to contemporary action as political virtues.Constant Minds investigates the reception and use of Lipsian ideas in the moral, political, and literary culture of late-sixteenth- and early-seventeenth-century England through examination of the writings and activities of Walter Ralegh, Francis Bacon, Fulke Greville, Ben Jonson, and Joseph Hall. Adriana McCrea demonstrates how this continental school of thought permeated the political ideas of these English writers, and places her study in the contexts of the literary conventions of the humanist tradition, the political events of the time, and the activities and circles of the authors themselves. McCrea's study fuses intellectual history with political history and literary analysis, prompting new questions about the nature of English Renaissance humanism and political perception in England during the early modern period.