The virtues of endurance /
Understanding the virtue of perseverance requires differentiating it from the skill of grit, the vice of pertinacity and the related virtues of patience and constancy. The key feature of perseverance as persistence in the difficult good is carved out in this essay through reflection on the pagan and...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2025].
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| Series: | Virtues (Oxford University Press)
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| Summary: | Understanding the virtue of perseverance requires differentiating it from the skill of grit, the vice of pertinacity and the related virtues of patience and constancy. The key feature of perseverance as persistence in the difficult good is carved out in this essay through reflection on the pagan and Christian history of reflection on perseverance (with particular attention to the context of martyrdom), Alasdair MacIntyre's questionable claims about constancy as a peculiarly modern virtue and about Jane Austen as its exemplar and Angela Duckworth's influential popular account of grit. |
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| Physical Description: | xl, 331 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197543856 0197543855 9780197543849 0197543847 |