Putting On Virtue

The Legacy of the Splendid Vices

Szerző: Jennifer A. Herdt

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Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: 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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Szerző

Jennifer A. Herdt

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2012

oldal

472

EAN

9780226327198

ISBN

0226327191

Enbook ID

02520653

Kiadó

The University of Chicago Press

Súly

686

Méretek

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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