Putting On Virtue

Putting On Virtue
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 467
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ISBN-13 : 9780226327198
ISBN-10 : 0226327191
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Book Synopsis Putting On Virtue by : Jennifer A. Herdt

Download or read book Putting On Virtue written by Jennifer A. Herdt and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-05-09 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work reveals how a distrust of learned and habituated virtue shaped both early modern Christian moral reflection and secular forms of ethical thought. The author's broad historical sweep takes in the Aristotelian tradition as taken up by Thomas Aquinas and has chapters on Luther, Bunyan, the Jansenists, Hume, and others.


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