TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - A sincere and teachable heart : self-denying virtue in British intellectual life, 1736-1859
T2  - History of science and medicine library
A1  - Bellon, Richard
LA  - eng
PP  - Leiden
PB  - Brill
YR  - 2015
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.2839315
AB  - "In A Sincere and Teachable Heart : Self-Denying Virtue in British Intellectual Life, 1736-1859, Richard Bellon demonstrates that respectability and authority in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain were not grounded foremost in ideas or specialist skills but in the self-denying virtues of patience and humility. Three case studies clarify this relationship between intellectual standards and practical moral duty. The first shows that the Victorians adapted a universal conception of sainthood to the responsibilities specific to class, gender, social rank, and vocation. The second illustrates how these ideals of self-discipline achieved their form and cultural vigor by analyzing the eighteenth-century moral philosophy of Joseph Butler, John Wesley, Samuel Johnson, and William Paley. The final reinterprets conflict between the liberal Anglican Noetics and the conservative Oxford Movement as a clash over the means of developing habits of self-denial"- -Provided by publisher.
OP  - 277
SN  - 9004263365
SN  - 9789004263369
KW  - Church of England : History.
KW  - Ethics : Great Britain : History.
KW  - Humility : Social aspects : Great Britain : History.
KW  - Oxford movement : History.
KW  - Patience : Social aspects : Great Britain : History.
KW  - Self-denial : Social aspects : Great Britain : History.
KW  - Virtue : Social aspects : Great Britain : History.
KW  - Great Britain : Intellectual life : 18th century.
KW  - Great Britain : Intellectual life : 19th century.
KW  - Great Britain : Moral conditions.
ER  -