Herdt, Jennifer A.,  1967- <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-431) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Boulder, Colo. : <br/>NetLibrary, <br/>2009. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780226327259 (electronic bk.) 0226327256 (electronic bk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Virtue.<br/>Imitation.<br/>Christian ethics.<br/>Ethics.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BV4633  / .H47 2008eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>179/.9