Putting on virtue
Subtitle: the legacy of the splendid vices
By: Jennifer A. Herdt.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9780226327242
Subjects: Virtue; Imitation; Christian ethics; Ethics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part I: Splendid vices and imperfect virtues; title: Aristotle and the puzzles of habituation; title: Augustine : disordered loves and the problem of pride; title: Aquinas : making space for pagan virtue; title: Part II: Mimetic virtue; title: Erasmus : putting on christ; title: The Jesuit theatrical tradition : acting virtuous; title: Part III: The exodus from virtue; title: Luther : saved hypocrites; title: Bunyan and Puritan life-writing : the virtue of self-examination; title: Part IV: The anatomy of virtue; title: Jesuits and Jansenists : Gracián and Pascal; title: Emancipating worldly virtue : Nicole, La Rochefoucauld, and Mandeville; title: Part V: Pagan virtue and modern moral philosophy; title: Rousseau and the virtue of authenticity; title: Hume and the bourgeois rehabilitation of pride; title: Kant and the pursuit of noumenal purity.