Receptive Human Virtues

A New Reading of Jonathan Edwards's Ethics

Nonfiction, History, Modern, 18th Century, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Religious, Theology
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Author: Elizabeth Agnew Cochran ISBN: 9780271073798
Publisher: Penn State University Press Publication: November 17, 2010
Imprint: Penn State University Press Language: English
Author: Elizabeth Agnew Cochran
ISBN: 9780271073798
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Publication: November 17, 2010
Imprint: Penn State University Press
Language: English

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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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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