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Humility Pride and Christian Virtue Theory by Kent Dunnington, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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Humility Pride and Christian Virtue Theory by Kent Dunnington, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Humility Pride and Christian Virtue Theory by Kent Dunnington, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Kent Dunnington

Humility Pride and Christian Virtue Theory by Kent Dunnington, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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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 thoughtinto 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-modernera-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 moralaction 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 suchas 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 weaknessof the account since it displays how Christianity matters for the shape of the moral life. | Humility Pride and Christian Virtue Theory by Kent Dunnington, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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