TY - BOOK ID - 136924256 TI - Virtue Politics : Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy PY - 2020 SN - 0674242521 0674242513 PB - Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Social ethics KW - Philosophy, Renaissance. KW - Ethics, Renaissance. KW - Common good. KW - Virtue. KW - Public interest KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136924256 AB - James Hankins challenges the view that the Renaissance was the seedbed of modern republicanism, with Machiavelli as exemplary thinker. What most concerned Renaissance political theorists, Hankins contends, was not reforming laws but shaping citizens. To secure the social good, they fostered virtue through a new program of education: the humanities. ER -