Putting on virtue : the legacy of the splendid vices /
Augustine famously claimed that the virtues of pagan Rome were nothing more than splendid vices. This critique has 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. Pu...
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2008.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
