Putting on virtue : the legacy of the splendid vices

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Putting on virtue : the legacy of the splendid vices

Jennifer A. Herdt

University of Chicago Press, 2008

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Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-431) and index

Contents of Works

  • Introduction
  • Part I: Splendid vices and imperfect virtues
  • Aristotle and the puzzles of habituation
  • Augustine : disordered loves and the problem of pride
  • Aquinas : making space for pagan virtue
  • Part II: Mimetic virtue
  • Erasmus : putting on Christ
  • The Jesuit theatrical tradition : acting virtuous
  • Part III: The exodus from virtue
  • Luther : saved hypocrites
  • Bunyan and Puritan life-writing : the virtue of self-examination
  • Part IV: The anatomy of virtue
  • Jesuits and Jansenists : Gracián and Pascal
  • Emancipating worldly virtue : Nicole, La Rochefoucauld, and Mandeville
  • Part V: Pagan virtue and modern moral philosophy
  • Rousseau and the virtue of authenticity
  • Hume and the bourgeois rehabilitation of pride
  • Kant and the pursuit of noumenal purity

Details

  • NCID
    BB27029230
  • ISBN
    • 9780226327242
    • 0226327248
  • LCCN
    2008009645
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Chicago
  • Pages/Volumes
    xi, 454 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
  • Classification
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