Humility, pride, and Christian virtue theory / Kent Dunnington.
2019
BV4647.H8
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Title
Humility, pride, and Christian virtue theory / Kent Dunnington.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780191859533 (electronic book)
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Call Number
BV4647.H8
Dewey Decimal Classification
241.4
Summary
This volume proposes an account of humility that relies on the most radical Christian sayings about humility, especially those found in Augustine and the early monastic tradition. It argues that this was the view of humility that put Christian moral thought into decisive conflict with the best Greco-Roman moral thought. This radical Christian account of humility has been forgotten amidst contemporary efforts to clarify and retrieve the virtue of humility for secular life. Kent Dunnington shows how humility was repurposed during the early-modern era - particularly in the thought of Hobbes, Hume, and Kant-to better serve the economic and social needs of the emerging modern state.
Note
This volume proposes an account of humility that relies on the most radical Christian sayings about humility, especially those found in Augustine and the early monastic tradition. It argues that this was the view of humility that put Christian moral thought into decisive conflict with the best Greco-Roman moral thought. This radical Christian account of humility has been forgotten amidst contemporary efforts to clarify and retrieve the virtue of humility for secular life. Kent Dunnington shows how humility was repurposed during the early-modern era - particularly in the thought of Hobbes, Hume, and Kant-to better serve the economic and social needs of the emerging modern state.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 11, 2019).
Series
Oxford studies in analytic theology.
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Oxford scholarship online.
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Print version: 9780198818397
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