Putting On Virtue

The Legacy of the Splendid Vices

Autor: Jennifer A. Herdt

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Väzba: Brožovaná

Vydavateľ: The University of Chicago Press

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Augustine famously claimed that the virtues of pagan Rome were nothing more than splendid vices. Thi...

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Autor

Jennifer A. Herdt

Jazyk

Angličtina

Väzba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydalo

2012

Stránok

472

EAN

9780226327198

ISBN

0226327191

Enbook ID

02520653

Vydavateľ

The University of Chicago Press

Hmotnosť

686

Rozmery

169 x 229 x 23

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Augustine famously claimed that the virtues of pagan Rome were nothing more than splendid vices. This critique 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 make a radical distinction between true Christian virtue and its tainted imitations actually created an autonomous natural ethics separate from Christianity. This secular value system valorized pride and authenticity, while rendering graced human agency less meaningful. 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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