Zmysły a grzech w czeskiej moralistyce XVI i XVII wieku

• Authors: Klaudia Koczur-Lejk

Title variants

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Senses and sin in the Czech moral writings of the 16th and 17th centuries

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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Czech prose at the turn of the 17th century is characterized by alarge number of moralistic works to advise the readers, warn them and show them the clue to life in virtue. Some texts contain general instructions, the other refer to aparticular state — maiden, widow or marriage. Moralists often write about human senses as asource of sin, especially in the context of Ten Commandments (Commandment 6 and 9). They recommend, inter alia, to avoid the situations and contacts that provoke passion, as well as control own senses, that is to rely on suppressing individual organs of senses, “restrain the eyes, ears, tongue.”

Keywords

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moralizing; Czech literature; senses; sin; moralistika; česká literatura; smysly; hřích

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Slavica Wratislaviensia
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 161
• Pages: 253 - 259

Contributors

author

Klaudia Koczur-Lejk

• Uniwersytet Szczeciński, Polska