Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Splendid vices and imperfect virtues
  • Aristotle and the puzzles of habituation
  • Augustine : disordered loves and the problem of pride
  • Aquinas : making space for pagan virtue
  • Part II: Mimetic virtue
  • Erasmus : putting on Christ
  • The Jesuit theatrical tradition : acting virtuous
  • Part III: The exodus from virtue
  • Luther : saved hypocrites
  • Bunyan and Puritan life-writing : the virtue of self-examination
  • Part IV: The anatomy of virtue
  • Jesuits and Jansenists : Gracián and Pascal
  • Emancipating worldly virtue : Nicole, La Rochefoucauld, and Mandeville
  • Part V: Pagan virtue and modern moral philosophy
  • Rousseau and the virtue of authenticity
  • Hume and the bourgeois rehabilitation of pride
  • Kant and the pursuit of noumenal purity.