Imagining the Virtues: Medieval and Early Modern Histories

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