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Receptive Human Virtues : A New Reading of Jonathan Edwards's Ethics / Elizabeth Agnew Cochran.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780271050591
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 241/.0458092 22
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  • BV4630 .C62 2011
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 An Ethic of Receptive Human Virtues -- 2 Love as Necessary and Volitional: -- 3 Charity as a Human Virtue: -- 4 Humility as a Human Virtue: -- 5 Virtuous Repentance: -- 6 Justice and Partial Loves: -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
Summary: This book offers a new reading of Jonathan Edwards's virtue ethic that examines a range of qualities Edwards identifies as "virtues" and considers their importance for contemporary ethics. Each of Edwards's human virtues is "receptive" in nature: humans acquire the virtues through receiving divine grace, and therefore depend utterly on Edwards's God for virtue's acquisition. By contending that humans remain authentic moral agents even as they are unable to attain virtue apart from his God's assistance, Edwards challenges contemporary conceptions of moral responsibility, which tend to emphasize human autonomy as a central part of accountability.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 An Ethic of Receptive Human Virtues -- 2 Love as Necessary and Volitional: -- 3 Charity as a Human Virtue: -- 4 Humility as a Human Virtue: -- 5 Virtuous Repentance: -- 6 Justice and Partial Loves: -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

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This book offers a new reading of Jonathan Edwards's virtue ethic that examines a range of qualities Edwards identifies as "virtues" and considers their importance for contemporary ethics. Each of Edwards's human virtues is "receptive" in nature: humans acquire the virtues through receiving divine grace, and therefore depend utterly on Edwards's God for virtue's acquisition. By contending that humans remain authentic moral agents even as they are unable to attain virtue apart from his God's assistance, Edwards challenges contemporary conceptions of moral responsibility, which tend to emphasize human autonomy as a central part of accountability.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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