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Humility, Pride, and Christian Virtue Theory (Hardcover)
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Humility, Pride, and Christian Virtue Theory (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Analytic Theology
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Humility, Pride, and Christian Virtue Theory 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. This repurposed humility insisted on a role for
proper pride alongside humility, as a necessary constituent of
self-esteem and a necessary motive of consistent moral action over
time. Contemporary philosophical accounts of humility continue this
emphasis on proper pride as a counterbalance to humility. By
contrast, radical Christian humility proscribes pride altogether.
Dunnington demonstrates how such a radical view need not give rise
to vices of humility such as servility and pusillanimity, nor need
such a view fall prey to feminist critiques of humility. But the
view of humility set forth makes little sense abstracted from a
specific set of doctrinal commitments peculiar to Christianity.
This study argues that this is a strength rather than a weakness of
the account since it displays how Christianity matters for the
shape of the moral life.
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