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The Virtues and Vices in the Arts
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Table of Contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
A House Divided
Virtues, Vices, Sins, and Gifts of the Spirit
Constellations

Part I
Foundations
Human Potential and Protection I
Human Potential and Protection II
Plato's The Republic
Aristotle's The Nicomachean Ethics
Cicero's Of Duties
Proverbs
Isaiah
Matthew
Paul's Letters

Part II
Codification of the Virtues and Vices
Tertullian's The Shows
Prudentius's Psychomachia
Evagrius of Pontus's On the Eight Thoughts
Gregory the Great's Morals on the Book of Job

Part III
The Medieval Apex
Divine Endowment
The Struggle
Contraries Cured by Contraries
The Summa
Psychomachia Illustrations
Illustrations of the Speculum Virginum
Hildegard of Bingen's Ordo Virtutum
Notre Dame of Amiens Twelve Virtues and Twelve Vices
Giotto's Virtues and Vices in the Arena Chapel
Dante's Purgatorio
Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Paintings in the Palazzo Pubblico, Siena
William Langland's Piers Plowman
Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Parson's Tale'

Part IV
The Transformation of the Virtues and Vices
Divine Endowment II
Struggle II
The Virtues and Vices in Everyday Life and in Death
The Vitality of Vice
Piero del Pollaiuolo's Seven Virtues
Andrea Mantegna's Minerva Chases the Vices from the Garden of Virtue
Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince
Bernaert van Orley (Designer) and Workshop of Pieter van Aelst (Weaver) The Honors
Peter Brueghel the Elder's Virtues and Vices
Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene

Part V
The Tradition Extended
The Struggle III
The Virtues and Vices in Everyday Life and in Death II
The Vitality of Vice II
Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography
Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil and The Antichrist
Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's The Seven Deadly Sins
C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity
Paul Cadmus's The Seven Deadly Sins

Epilogue

Appendix: Key Virtues and Vices Works
Bibliography
Acknowledgment of Copyright
Index

About the Author

Shawn Tucker is Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at Elon University. He was recently the guest editor for a special issue of 'Interdisciplinary Humanities'. His has also received a National Endowment for the Humanities Enduring Questions grant to develop a course on Pride, Humility, and the Good Life.

Reviews

"Shawn Tucker's anthology offers a delightful journey through classic works of philosophy, theology, art, and literature with a heavy dose of wit. The structure of the book is crucial to its success. ... With its well-chosen selections, insightful argument, and memorable imagery, Tucker's anthology is a useful collection for those interested in a wide variety of fields. Students of history or philosophy, art or literature, and theology or ethics will find value in the pages of this book, as it promises to serve as a resource to which they return again and again."
- Derek R. Davenport, Reviews in Religion and Theology, Volume 24, Issue 3, July 2017

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