Receptive Human Virtues: A New Reading of Jonathan Edwards's Ethics

by Elizabeth Agnew Cochran

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 027104845X
• ISBN13: 9780271048451
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"