Filozofska istraživanja, Vol. 30 No. 3, 2010.
Original scientific paper
Petrić on Virtue and Happiness in the »Humanistic« Period
Bruno Ćurko
; Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
In the four works published up to the year 1562, Frane Petrić discusses virtue and happiness. The basic theme of his first book, La città felice (1551), is how to achieve happiness through virtue. The other three works in which Petrić deals with virtue and happiness are Barignano. Il Dialogo dell’honore (1552), Della historia diece dialoghi (1560) and Della retorica dieci dialoghi (1562). In these works, the issues of virtue and happiness are just collateral issues. In Barignano, dialogue of honor, Petrić discusses the relationship between virtue and honor. In della historia Petrić brings us a short discussion on the achievement of happiness, as a subtopic in the discussion about the purpose of history. In della retorica Petrić briefly discusses the connection between praise and virtues, as well as the diversity of sources of virtues and good. Petrić wrote that his goal is to follow the divine Plato; however, in these four works he is still loyal to Aristotle – at least regarding the issues of virtue and happiness – and his teachings from Politics, The Nicomachean Ethics and Rhetoric.
Keywords
virtue; beatitude; education; legislator; community; Frane Petrić; Plato; Aristotle
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62995
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Publication date:
25.10.2010.
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