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Disguised Vices - Theories of Virtue in Early Modern French Thought (Hardcover, New)
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Disguised Vices - Theories of Virtue in Early Modern French Thought (Hardcover, New)
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The notions of virtue and vice are essential components of the
Western ethical tradition. But in early modern France they were
called into question, as writers, most famously La Rochefoucauld,
argued that what appears as virtue is in fact disguised vice:
people carry out praiseworthy deeds because they stand to gain in
some way; they deserve no credit for their behaviour because they
have no control over it; they are governed by feelings and motives
of which they may not be aware. Disguised Vices analyses the
underlying logic of these arguments, and investigates what is at
stake in them. It traces the arguments back to their sources in
earlier writers, showing how ancient philosophers, particularly
Aristotle and Seneca, formulated the distinction between behaviour
that counts as virtuous and behaviour that only seems so. It
explains how St Augustine reinterpreted the distinction in the
light of the difference between pagans and Christians, and how
medieval and early modern theologians strove to reconcile
Augustine's position with that of Aristotle. It examines the
restatement of Augustine's position by his hard-line early modern
followers (especially the Jansenists), and the controversy to which
this gave rise. Finally, it examines La Rochefoucauld's critique of
virtue and assesses the extent of its links with the Augustinian
current of thought.
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