Disguised vices : theories of virtue in early modern French thought / Michael Moriarty.

The notions of virtue and vice are essential components of the Western ethical tradition. But in early modern France they were called into question, as writers, most famously La Rochefoucauld, argued that what appears as virtue is in fact disguised vice: people carry out praiseworthy deeds because t...

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Main Author: Moriarty, Michael, 1956-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
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