Receptive Human Virtues : : A New Reading of Jonathan Edwards's Ethics / / Elizabeth Agnew Cochran.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• VerfasserIn: Cochran, Elizabeth Agnew,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; 1 An Ethic of Receptive Human Virtues --; 2 Love as Necessary and Volitional: --; 3 Charity as a Human Virtue: --; 4 Humility as a Human Virtue: --; 5 Virtuous Repentance: --; 6 Justice and Partial Loves: --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Works Cited --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780271050591; 9783110745269
• DOI: 10.1515/9780271050591?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Elizabeth Agnew Cochran.

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.