Virtues and Passions in Literature: Excellence, Courage, Engagements, Wisdom, Fulfilment: Analecta Husserliana, cartea 96

Section I.- Historical and Contemporary Virtues As Reflected in Chinese Literatre.- Revisiting the Traditional Virtues of the Hero.- Beauty, Taste, and Enlightenment in Hume’s Aesthetic Thought.- Section II.- Virtues of the Heart.- The Willing Subject and the Non-Willing Subject in the Tao Te Ching and Nietzsche’s Hyperborean.- Virtue in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead.- Section III.- Inherent and Intentional Inquiries on Virtues.- Striving and Accepting Limits As Competing Meta-Virtues.- Happiness, Division, and Illusions of the Self in Plato’s Symposium.- The Virtue of Responsibility.- Section IV.- Enlightenment, Humanization, and Beauty in The Light of Schiller’s “Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man”.- Beyond Adaptation.- Between the Ironic and the Irenic.- Phenomenological Temporality and Proustian Nostalgia.- Section V.- Art and Awareness.- The Image in the History of Thought.- The Narrative Model.- Political Symbolism in the Saint Antoine Gate, 1585–1672.- Music Theory and Phenomenology of Musical Performance.

This book explains how the emergence of Human Condition lifts natural endowment of the individual to the level of excellence This book explains how natural forces and promptings of life transmute through creative Human Condition subliminal passions of the soul into innumerable streaks of spiritual significance This book explains how virtues streaming from individual forces maintain bedrocks of the societal links