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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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2008.
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