TY - BOOK AU - Herdt,Jennifer A. ED - NetLibrary, Inc. TI - Putting on virtue: the legacy of the splendid vices SN - 9780226327259 (electronic bk.) AV - BV4633 .H47 2008eb U1 - 179/.9 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Chicago PB - University of Chicago Press KW - Virtue KW - Imitation KW - Christian ethics KW - Ethics KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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 UR - http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=272582 ER -