The manuscript of the medieval morality play The Castle of Perseverance contains an illustration commonly understood as the earliest example of a medieval stage plan. Yet The Castle is an allegory, an extended metaphor, the meaning of which comes from the exegetical tradition. Medieval drama is didactic, and education, like exegesis and metaphor, operates on many levels. The Castle plays on the meaning of play: to read it solely as a play is to read merely the first level of meaning. This thesis considers The Castle not in its usual dramatic context but in that of devotional literature: specifically, exegesis, mysticism, and the monastic practice of lectio divina, divine reading. It focuses on the text and diagram as the verbal and visual illustration of classical and biblical metaphors: among these, the pilgrimage of life, the castle of the mind, the treasure chest of the heart, and the river of the soul. Gregory the Greats Moralia in Job is discussed as the likeliest source of the metaphors found in The Castle; the Moralia serves as an exemplar of allegory as a systematic metaphor and a metaphoric system. The Castle allegorizes and actualizes an abstraction, the process of temptation; depicting the mind as a stage on which players become prayers. Morality plays concern the ethics of salvation: one is the sum of ones choices. Thus, the manuscripts goal is to foster contemplation or Christian Socratism, the examination of conscience, as a prerequisite to salvation and the mystical union with God.

Most of the literature explores ethics through the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility, but little is written on Virtue-Ethics; in the sense of an individualistic quest towards human values and virtues. This Report “innovates” in the sense that it explores the concept of aestheticism when applied to business practices. Different metaphors about theatre, and music such as songs and jazz, serve to illustrate how businesses can add an aesthetic touch to the organisational life. Followers become supporters, and the leader does not control but inspire her audience. The concept of aestheticism is further analysed in view of the current economic environment; hoping for a growing awareness on the need to shift towards a new style of leadership, that would imply greater sense of individual responsibility.

Thesis--Tübingen. / Bibliography: p. [428]-434.

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The purpose of this study was to apply concepts of virtue and positive psychology to the understanding of well-being in gay and lesbian individuals. Ninety-two self-identified gay and lesbian university students between the ages of 18 and 30 completed an online research survey to assess their well-being and character strengths. Preliminary factor analysis revealed a two-factor virtue structure underlying the 24 character strengths as outlined by the Values In Action (VIA) inventory. Participants were grouped using cluster analysis, and discriminant analysis was then performed to differentiate between group membership based on virtue factors. Results suggest that individuals with high autonomy and low overall well-being score lower in interpersonal strengths than those with balanced well-being. As social support has been identified as a key factor related to well-being for this population, further attention is warranted to study the relationship between autonomy, interpersonal character strengths, and social support in this population. / Department of Counseling Psychology and Guidance Services

This study examined the hypothesis that the moral personality is one in which moral knowledge structures are chronically accessible. A spontaneous trait inference cued-recall paradigm was employed. It was expected that those with chronically accessible moral knowledge structures (N = 61) would spontaneously encode virtue-content information differently than those with less chronically accessible moral knowledge structures (N = 77). High and low moral chronic accessibility participants were instructed to memorize sentences that contained virtue-content implications. Sentence recall was then cued by either virtuous dispositional terms or by words that were linked semantically to the sentences. Within the spontaneous processing condition, dispositional cues prompted twice as much recall as semantic cues among participants with high moral chronic accessibility whereas semantic cues prompted twice as much recall as dispositional cues among participants with low moral chronic accessibility. As predicted, within the deliberate processing conditions, there were no high/low moral chronic accessibility differences. These findings support the claim that the moral personality is usefully conceptualized in terms of the chronic accessibility of moral knowledge structures. / Department of Educational Psychology

Condensation of Thesis (Ph. D.)--Vanderbilt University, 1946. / "Private edition, distributed by the Joint university libraries, Nashville, Tennessee." Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.C.S.)--Regent College, 2005. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [80]-87).

Thesis (M.C.S.)--Regent College, 2005. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [80]-87).

A felicidade (eudaimonia) e a amizade (philia) são temas amplamente abordados na obra de Aristóteles, não obstante, são tratados com destaque em suas obras sobre a ética e a política, especialmente na Ética a Nicômacos. A presente dissertação analisa a relação e complementariedade destes dois temas na Ética Nicomaquéia e a metodologia de investigação para a composição deste estudo é a bibliográfica, dispondo-se como aporte teórico basilar as investigações, considerações e argumentações de Aristóteles na obra acima citada, especificamente nos Livros I, II e X que tratam da temática da felicidade e nos Livros VIII e IX, que abordam o tema da amizade. Além das contribuições surgidas das análises elucidativas de comentaristas e intérpretes dos temas investigados e do universo da obra aristotélica. Os resultados da pesquisa permitem considerar que Aristóteles pondera que o convívio dos homens virtuosos, estabelecido na amizade, é propício para promover a consecução da finalidade da existência do homem, que é a felicidade. Estes resultados conduzem, como conclusão, ao reconhecimento da inter-relação e complementariedade dos conceitos de felicidade e amizade perfeita, conformando uma díade substancial, tanto para a realização da existência quanto para a completude, na excelência, da vida dos homens. / Submitted by Ana Guimarães Pereira (agpereir@ucs.br) on 2016-11-25T13:00:49Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Horacio Francisco Rodriguez Fleitas.pdf: 1425845 bytes, checksum: 2809756b027c4f3fdf99e66dc3e3f1f9 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-11-25T13:00:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Horacio Francisco Rodriguez Fleitas.pdf: 1425845 bytes, checksum: 2809756b027c4f3fdf99e66dc3e3f1f9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-11-25 / Happiness (eudaimonia) and friendship (philia) are widely discussed themes in the work of Aristotle, however, are treated especially in his works on ethics and politics, especially in the Nicomachean Ethics. This dissertation analyzes the relationship and complementarity of these two issues in the Nicomachean Ethics and the research methodology for the composition of this study is bibliographic, providing itself as basic theoretical background to the investigations, considerations and arguments of Aristotle in the above cited work, specifically in the Books I, II and X dealing with the theme of happiness and books VIII and IX, which address the theme of friendship. In addition to the contributions arising from enlightening analysis of commentators and interpreters of the research topics and the universe of Aristotle's work.The survey results support the conclusion that Aristotle argues that the society of virtuous men, established in friendship is conducive to promoting the achievement of the purpose of man's existence, which is happiness. These results lead in conclusion, the recognition of the interrelationship and complementarity of the concepts of happiness and perfect friendship, forming a substantial dyad, both for the realization of existence as to the completeness, excellence, of human life.