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Authors: Anthony F. D’Elia
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-01-04 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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In 1462 Pope Pius II performed the only reverse canonization in history, publicly damning a living man. The target was Sigismondo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini and
Ethics as a Work of Charity
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Most of us wonder how to make sense of the apparent moral excellences or virtues of those who have different visions of the good life or different religious com
Pagan Virtue
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: John Casey
Categories: Cardinal virtues
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Dr Casey argues that the classical virtues of courage, temperance, practical wisdom, and justice, which are largely ignored in modern moral philosophy, centrall
Pagans and Philosophers
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Authors: John Marenbon
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An ambitious history of how medieval writers came to terms with paganism From the turn of the fifth century to the beginning of the eighteenth, Christian writer
Putting On Virtue
Language: en
Pages: 467
Authors: Jennifer A. Herdt
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-05-09 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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This work reveals how a distrust of learned and habituated virtue shaped both early modern Christian moral reflection and secular forms of ethical thought. The