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Imagining the Virtues: Medieval and Early Modern Histories
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The tradition of the virtues was the model for moral practice from Aristotle to Luther. This tradition framed practices of living well in relation to visions of the good, and in its later Christian version, of God. One became good through practice, just as a harpist might play well through disciplined habits of exercise. In Alasdair MacIntyre's extraordinary excavations of philosophy and intellectual history, the Reformation is by and large neglected as he traces a path from Aristotle to Hume and beyond. This special issue seeks to put the Reformation(s) back into the picture and to see what avenues might be opened as a result. Articles explore what happens to ancient and medieval habits, practices, and conceptualizations of virtue and the virtue tradition resulting from the complex reorganizations of ritual, sacramental, ecclesiological, theological, and ethical practices during the Reformation era. The essays in this issue explore various strands of the Reformation in which the virtue tradition is maintained, transformed, or rejected.
Title: Imagining the Virtues: Medieval and Early Modern Histories
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The tradition of the virtues was the model for moral practice from Aristotle to Luther.
This tradition framed practices of living well in relation to visions of the good, and in its later Christian version, of God.
One became good through practice, just as a harpist might play well through disciplined habits of exercise.
In Alasdair MacIntyre's extraordinary excavations of philosophy and intellectual history, the Reformation is by and large neglected as he traces a path from Aristotle to Hume and beyond.
This special issue seeks to put the Reformation(s) back into the picture and to see what avenues might be opened as a result.
Articles explore what happens to ancient and medieval habits, practices, and conceptualizations of virtue and the virtue tradition resulting from the complex reorganizations of ritual, sacramental, ecclesiological, theological, and ethical practices during the Reformation era.
The essays in this issue explore various strands of the Reformation in which the virtue tradition is maintained, transformed, or rejected.
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