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Book SynopsisIntroduction.-Part 1: Moral Antropology.- Chapter 1. Animal Psychology and Human Nature: A Historical Perspective.- Chapter 2. A Historical Anthropology of Affectivity in the Medieval Latin World.- Chapter 3. The Matter of Character: The Case of Pre-modern Physiognomy. - Part 2. Moral Agency and Motivation.- Chapter 4. First Movements, Passions, and Free Choice.- Chapter 5. The Inner Struggle. From Augustine to Shakespeare.- Chapter 6. Casuistry, Probabilism and The Demandingness of Morality. - Chapter 7. Visions of Human Sociability in Early Modern Moral and Political Thought.- Part 3: Virtues, Happiness and Moral Education- Chapter 8. Virtues, Vices, and Small Morals: Theophrastus' Characters.- Chapter 9. Psychology of Happiness in Ancient Greek and Roman Ethics.- Chapter 10. Happiness in Classical Arabic Philosophy.- Chapter 11. Women, Education, and Moral Psychology, 14001800.- Part 4: Dimensions of Moral Psychology.- Chapter 12. Common Good and Individual Good.- Chapter 13. Religious Tolerance in Islamic Theology: Fakhr al-Din al-Razi on Freedom of Religious Belief.- Chapter 14. Nobility And Pre-Modern Moral Psychology: A Question of Framework.- Chapter 15. Friendship in Medieval and Early Modern Literature and Thought.- Chapter 16. Compassion and Pity.
