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

By: Elizabeth Agnew Cochran

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9780271073798
Related ISBNs:: 9780271037523
Publisher:: Penn State University Press
Date of Addition:: 04/29/22
Copyrighted By:: The Pennsylvania State University
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Philosophy
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.