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SANTOS, Maria Tereza. The importance of ethics in medieval ethics. Acta Educ. [online]. 2020, vol.42, e51668.  Epub 01-Abr-2020. ISSN 2178-5201.  https://doi.org/10.4025/actascieduc.v42i1.51668.

Ethics is a matter inscribed in medieval philosophy, although without the relevance of metaphysical speculation and logical analysis (Williams, 2018). Christian ethics has a set of crosscutting topics (happiness, friendship, freedom, righteousness) which are articulated with various domains of knowledge (legal / law, economic / profit, religious / religious / sin / salvation / grace). The aims of the text are two: one, to show that ethics is transversal (but not dominant) and has a practical meaning. Several texts are referred to clear the concept of ethics as a righteousness of life, highlight the stoic and patristic matrix and register their presence at the university. The methodology is analytical, and the expected results belong to two different orders: to supply anti-medieval prejudice and to place ethics in the script of medieval readings and investigations. This text starts from these assumptions (transversal and connected to) but questions the singular use of the term 'ethics'. Should one speak of medieval ‘ethics’ or ‘ethics’ in the medieval period? The answer to the question describes a zigzag between one term and the other, depending on the authors being studied, the events and the directions of formation in the European world.

Palabras clave : ethics; medieval; university; virtues; philosophy.

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