@inbook{1764b5968e7e40e98c2762b9619069a2,
title = "Thomas Hobbes Against the Aristotelian Account of the Virtues and His Renaissance Source Lorenzo Valla",
abstract = "This chapter objects to the {\textquotedblleft}ethicist{\textquotedblright} interpretation of Hobbes{\textquoteright}s theory of morals, considering whether and how a more historical and contextual approach could confirm or disconfirm this sort of reading Hobbes. In this connection, it will be shown that knowledge of Hobbes{\textquoteright}s Renaissance sources, first of all Valla, can help us to avoid not only historical but also philosophical misunderstandings, such as dismissing Hobbes{\textquoteright}s objections to the Aristotelian theory of virtues. For his scientific approach to ethics that excludes the doctrine of mes{\'o}tes, for his stressing the value of pleasure and self-preservation, for his criticism of the classic and Renaissance concept of {\textquotedblleft}glory{\textquotedblright}, Hobbes reveals himself to have been influenced much more by Valla{\textquoteright}s similar topics than by Aristotle{\textquoteright}s approach, as Leo Strauss in the past and more recently Boonin-Vail and Ewin thought.",
keywords = "Moral Philosophy, Moral Psychology, Moral Theory, Seventeenth Century, Virtue Ethic",
author = "Gianni Paganini",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016, Springer International Publishing Switzerland.",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-32604-7\_13",
language = "English",
series = "International Archives of the History of Ideas/Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees",
publisher = "Springer Nature",
pages = "221--237",
booktitle = "International Archives of the History of Ideas/Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees",
address = "United States",
}