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Carte Putting on Virtue Jennifer A. Herdt

Putting on Virtue

The Legacy of the Splendid Vices

Autor: Jennifer A. Herdt
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Copertă tare
Editura: The University of Chicago Press
Disponibilitate: Retipărire preconizată
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560.72 lei
Augustine famously claimed that the virtues of pagan Rome were nothing more than splendid vices. Thi...

Informații despre carte

Autor
Jennifer A. Herdt
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Copertă tare
Publicat
2008
Pagini
416
EAN
9780226327242
ISBN
0226327248
Enbook ID
04545780
Editura
The University of Chicago Press
Greutate
748
Dimensiuni
152 x 229 x 30

Descriere completă

Augustine famously claimed that the virtues of pagan Rome were nothing more than splendid vices. This critique has reinvented itself as a suspicion of acquired virtue as such, and true Christian virtue has, ever since, been set against a false, hypocritical virtue alleged merely to conceal pride. "Putting On Virtue" reveals how a distrust of learned and habituated virtue shaped both early modern Christian moral reflection and secular forms of ethical thought.Jennifer A. Herdt develops her claims through an argument of broad historical sweep, which brings together the Aristotelian tradition as taken up by Thomas Aquinas with the early modern thinkers who shaped modern liberalism. In chapters on Luther, Bunyan, the Jansenists, Mandeville, Hume, Rousseau, and Kant, she argues that efforts to guard a radical distinction between true Christian virtue and its tainted imitations, ironically, fostered the emergence of an autonomous natural ethics that valorized pride and authenticity, while rendering graced human agency increasingly unintelligible. Ultimately, "Putting On Virtue" traces a path from suspicion of virtue to its secular inversion, from confession of dependence to assertion of independence.

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