Theory as Practice

Ethical Inquiry in the Renaissance

By: Nancy S. Struever

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Hardcover | 1 March 1992 | Edition Number 1

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There is a tendency in modern scholarship to describe the Renaissance Humanists merely as readers--as interpreters happily absorbed within the bounds of their chosen classical texts. In "Theory as Practice," Nancy Struever contests this accepted notion; by focusing on ethical inquiry, she presents the Humanists as engaged in subtle, innovative moral work.
Struever argues that the accomplishment of five major Renaissance figures--Petrarch, Nicolaus Cusanus, Lorenzo Valla, Machiavelli, and Montaigne--was to consider theory as practice and thus engage the ethics of inquiry. She notes three stages of investigation, the first represented by Petrarch, who "relocated" ethical inquiry from a theoretical realm to a familiar practice responsive to daily experience. Next, Struever describes how Cusanus and Valla assume Petrarch's relocation, yet confect ethics into discursive disciplines. Finally, while both Machiavelli and Montaigne produced strong revisions of discipline, they considered the problems of addressing the non-inquirer as well. Struever urges modern readers to employ both rhetorical and philosophical analysis to reveal these Humanists' aggressive tactics of presentation as well as their novel disciplinary reorientation. By doing so, she suggests, we discover how Renaissance ethical inquiry illuminates, and is illuminated by, the modern ethical theory of such philosophers as Peirce, Wittgenstein, Bernard Williams, and Quine.

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Non-Fiction Philosophy History of Western Philosophy Medieval & Renaissance Philosophy History Ethics & Moral Philosophy Society & Culture

Introduction: The Uses of the Present
The Relocation of Inquiry
Petrarchan Ethics: Inventing a Practice
Afterword: Familiar Letters after Petrarch; A Practice Practiced
Internal Discipline Introduction
Metaphoric Morals: Ethical Implications of Cusanus's Use of Figure
Lorenzo Valla's Grammar of Subject and Object: An Ethical Inquiry
Afterword: The Figuration of Aristotle
External Address Introduction
Machiavelli: Narrative as Argument
Montaigne's Web of Belief
Afterword 1: Purity as Danger; Gramsci's Machiavelli, Croce's Vico
Afterword 2: Purity as Danger; Belief after Montaigne
Index
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