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Putting On Virtue: The Legacy of the Splendid Vices
Jennifer A. Herdt
Putting On Virtue: The Legacy of the Splendid Vices
Jennifer A. Herdt
Augustine famously claimed that the virtues of pagan Rome were nothing more than splendid vices. This title reveals how a distrust of learned and habituated virtue shaped both early modern Christian moral reflection and secular forms of ethical thought.
472 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | May 9, 2012 |
ISBN13 | 9780226327198 |
Publishers | The University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 472 |
Dimensions | 169 × 229 × 23 mm · 686 g |
Language | English |
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