Renaissance Quarterly, June 22nd, 1999
Justice is one of the moral virtues that, to the greatest degree, orients people toward a community and governs exchanges between individuals. Literature can coherently reproduce moral paradigms originating from the Aristotelian-Ciceronian tradition. The discourse of virtues permeates many levels of literature in the Renaissance both as a theme and as a structuring device. Thus, an analysis is made of justice in the Renaissance novella. Philosophers writing recently in the United States and Canada, such as Martha Nussbaum, Alisdair MacIntyre, and Charles Taylor, although they are in fundament...
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