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ISBN: | 9780191859533 (ebook) : No price
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Notes: | This edition previously issued in print: 2018. Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 11, 2019).
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Summary: | This volume 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 thought into 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-modern era - particularly in the thought of Hobbes, Hume, and Kant-to better serve the economic and social needs of the emerging modern state.
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Target Audience: | Specialized.
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Other form: | Print version : 9780198818397
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