Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
  1. Home
  2. Search

Refine search

Refine search

Access:
Content type:
Publication date:
Apply   From and To filters
Subject: Show more
Journals Show more
Publishers: Show more
Societies Show more
Series: Show more
Collections: Show more

Actions for selected content:

Select all | Deselect all
  • View selected items
  • Export citations
  • Download PDF (zip)
  • Save to Kindle
  • Save to Dropbox
  • Save to Google Drive

Save Search

You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
Cancel
×

1 results

  • Chapter 8 - Skepticism

  • from Part I - Shakespeare and Virtue Ethics
  • Edited by Julia Reinhard Lupton, University of California, Irvine, Donovan Sherman, Seton Hall University, New Jersey
  • Book:
    Shakespeare and Virtue
    Published online:
    19 January 2023
    Print publication:
    26 January 2023, pp 81-87

  • Summary

    This chapter examines one moment in Shakespeare—from As You Like It—in which Shakespeare might be said to play with skeptical, Pyrrhonist principles: in which opposed positions seem to have lodged themselves within a character. The chapter explores what can happen to philosophical, in this case Pyrrhonist, notions when they are not articulated by characters themselves and are instead embodied in performance; when the character who embodies those notions is not a particularly philosophical character at all; and when philosophical notions are not only performed but also transformed by the passions which Pyrrhonists would curb and without which Shakespeare’s plays would be intolerably boring. Addressing these questions, the chapter considers the form that virtue can take when it arises not as a consequence of, but in the absence of, a philosophy.