Titlebook: On the Decline of the Genteel Virtues; From Gentility to Te Jeff Mitchell Book 2019 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under

记忆

Introductory: On the Ethos of Good Taste or Gentility,d judgments that deserve to be heeded. The rest of the chapter presents a genetic account of the antimony, with the author suggesting that the notion of good taste originated with the birth of the gentility.

Expertise

On the Origins of Aristocracy,st advanced of the ancient aristocratic societies. He argues that the Greeks, Romans, Chinese, and Hebrews all developed distinctive forms of aristocratic humanism, and that Greece, China, and India also produced their own versions of a dualism pitting ascetic supernaturalism against hedonistic materialism.

平息

The Ethos of Gentility in Early Confucianism,argues that not only were most of the early Confucian thinkers members of the gentry, but that their thought largely represented a theory of gentility. The chapter includes a brief sociological comparison of the Chinese and Greek gentries.

ADORN

Concerto

外星人

The Ethos of Gentility from the Italian Renaissance to Victorian England,man. The author argues that a number of Britian’s most important thinkers, including Shaftesbury and Burke, viewed the gentleman as playing an indispensable role in the distinctive British tradition of civil liberties and limited government.

Little

The Ethos of Gentility in Greco-Roman Antiquity,s natural habitat, the classical city-state, the author considers the gentleman of the Roman Republic, primarily as he appears in the writings of Cicero. The chapter concludes with a description of the fate of the Republican gentleman, whose imperial incarnation was lacking in many of his former political functions.

entreat

American Meritocracy and the Rise of Specialized Elites,paid to the educational aspect of this change, particularly as it occurred in the country’s colleges and universities. The chapter concludes with a comparison of the gentleman to his technocratic descendant.

使尴尬

Book 2019ising 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

除草剂