Name: Putting on Virtue: The Legacy of the Splendid Vices (en Inglés)
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Author: Jennifer A. Herdt
ISBN: 9780226327198

portada Putting on Virtue: The Legacy of the Splendid Vices (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Univ Of Chicago Pr

Autor

Jennifer A. Herdt

Año

2012

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

454

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

0226327191

ISBN13

9780226327198

Categorías

Filosofía ética y moral

Putting on Virtue: The Legacy of the Splendid Vices (en Inglés)

Jennifer A. Herdt (Autor) · Univ Of Chicago Pr · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Putting on Virtue: The Legacy of the Splendid Vices (en Inglés)"

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 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.