Putting on Virtue: The Legacy of the Splendid Vices by Jennifer A. Herdt

Putting on Virtue: The Legacy of the Splendid Vices

Jennifer A. Herdt

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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, hypocr...

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