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Putting On Virtue: The Legacy of the Splendid Vices
Putting On Virtue The Legacy of the Splendid Vices
Author: Jennifer A. Herdt
Augustine famously claimed that the virtues of pagan Rome were nothing more than splendid vices. This critique 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. Putting On Virtue reveals how a distrust of learned a...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226327198
ISBN-10: 0226327191
Publication Date: 5/9/2012
Pages: 472
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Paperback
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