Saint T homas A quinas's Pagan Virtues

Putting the Question to Jennifer Herdt's Putting On Virtue

Datos Bibliográficos

ID14760784
AutoresSheryl Overmyer (0009-0000-8797-9458, autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Volumen41
Número4
Páginas669-687
Fecha de publicación2013-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Religious Ethics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0384-9694 • E-ISSN: 1467-9795
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/jore.12037
OpenAlexW1858954624
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas17

Today's conversations in virtue ethics are enflamed with questions of “pagan virtues,” which often designate non‐ C hristian virtue from a C hristian perspective. “Pagan virtues,” “pagan vices,” and their historied interpretations are the subject of J ennifer H erdt's book Putting On Virtue: The Legacy of the Splendid Vices (2008). I argue that the questions and language animating H erdt's book are problematic. I offer an alternative strategy to H erdt's for reading T homas A quinas's Summa Theologiae. My results are twofold: (1) a different set of conclusions and questions regarding the moral life that lend a fresh perspective to “pagan virtues” and (2) corresponding methodological suggestions for improving H erdt's project that would, to my mind, reaffirm her normative conclusions regarding the most viable ways forward for contemporary discussions of virtue

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