Putting on virtue
Herdt, Jennifer A., 1967-
Putting on virtue the legacy of the splendid vices / [electronic resource] : Jennifer A. Herdt. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008. - xi, 454 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-431) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Boulder, Colo. :
NetLibrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries.
9780226327259 (electronic bk.) 0226327256 (electronic bk.)
Virtue.
Imitation.
Christian ethics.
Ethics.
Electronic books.
BV4633 / .H47 2008eb
179/.9
Putting on virtue the legacy of the splendid vices / [electronic resource] : Jennifer A. Herdt. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008. - xi, 454 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-431) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Boulder, Colo. :
NetLibrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries.
9780226327259 (electronic bk.) 0226327256 (electronic bk.)
Virtue.
Imitation.
Christian ethics.
Ethics.
Electronic books.
BV4633 / .H47 2008eb
179/.9
