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Author Kivisto, Sari

Title The vices of learning : morality and knowledge at early modern universities / by Sari Kivisto
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, ©2014

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Series Education and society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Education and society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Contents Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction: Academic Self-criticism in the Early Modern Period; Dissertations on Scholarly Vices; Social Criticism of Scholars; Religious Critics of Errors Made by the Learned; Classifying the Vices of the Intellect and the Will; Vices of Learning Chapter by Chapter; Chapter 2 Self-love and Pride; Preliminary Definitions; Good and Bad Self-love (philautia); Obstinacy as a Symptom of Self-love; Similar to God: Pride (fastus); The Dogs of the Nile: Autodidacts and Self-sufficiency; Heads Full of Wind and Other Images of Pride
Spitzel's Historical Examples of PridePedantry and Thrasonism; Humility and Modesty; Conclusion; Chapter 3 The Desire for Fame; Meursius on Glory, Fame and Ambition; Fame and Public Recognition; Literary Machiavellianism, Academic Deceit and Avarice; The Itch to Write; Agraphia; Bibliotaphia; Plagiarism and Academic Thieves; Titulomania; Conclusion; Chapter 4 Logomachia and Futile Quarrelling; Disputations in Schools and Universities; Sophists and Other Wicked Disputants; Sectarians and Eclectics; Werenfels on Word-battles; Obscurity and Misunderstanding; Grammar Wars; Logomachies in Law
Pleasure, Ambition and AvariceAdvice on Moral Improvement; On Modesty, Again; Conclusions about Peacefulness; Chapter 5 Curiosity and Novelties; Against Novelties; Bad Curiosity and Ambition; Measuring the World versus Knowing the Self; Curious Fields of Knowledge; Examples of Curious Scholars; Atheism, Curiosity and Singularity; Operative Curiosity; Conclusions about Curiosity and Useful Learning; Chapter 6 Bad Manners and Old Learning; Unfashionable Scholars; Bad Communication; Solitude and Misanthropy; The Silence of the Philosophers; Seniority versus Youth; Conclusion
Chapter 7 Conclusions about Morality and KnowledgeAppendix; Bibliography; Index
Summary In The Vices of Learning Sari Kivistö examines scholarly vices, such as pride, plagiarism and the desire for fame, in over one hundred Latin dissertations and treatises from the late Baroque and early Enlightenment periods
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Education, Higher -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Europe -- History
Education, Higher -- Europe -- History
EDUCATION -- Higher.
Education, Higher
Education, Higher -- Moral and ethical aspects
Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004276451
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