The customs of the peoples and the virtue of vice
Bonnet, Stéphane
The customs of the peoples and the virtue of vice - 2021.
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The customs of modern people are molded by two kinds of morality: one comes from the pagan antiquity and allows for an active prudence which, turning the vice of ingratitude into virtue of acquisition, once culminated in the great founders of State; the other comes from Christianity, magnifies humility, and alters what remains from ancient morality. In the modern era, a certain learned prudence is then both a testament to the enduring presence of ancient morality and a promise that the emulation of the Ancients could resurrect the prudence of the man of action—a virtue interwoven with vices, and with inextricably intellectual, moral, and political dimensions.
The customs of the peoples and the virtue of vice - 2021.
80
The customs of modern people are molded by two kinds of morality: one comes from the pagan antiquity and allows for an active prudence which, turning the vice of ingratitude into virtue of acquisition, once culminated in the great founders of State; the other comes from Christianity, magnifies humility, and alters what remains from ancient morality. In the modern era, a certain learned prudence is then both a testament to the enduring presence of ancient morality and a promise that the emulation of the Ancients could resurrect the prudence of the man of action—a virtue interwoven with vices, and with inextricably intellectual, moral, and political dimensions.
Réseaux sociaux