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7 - Moral Agents and the Presentation of Virtue

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 October 2020

Arthur Jan Keefer
Arthur Jan Keefer
Affiliation:
Eton College
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After a brief summary of the book’s argument, I suggest how understanding Proverbs as a tradition of virtue helps to address other questions about the ethics of the book, such as recent discussions about character. Specifically, I draw together and draw out the book’s conception of human nature, moral action and character, the relation of moral and theological virtue, the human problem, and how Proverbs relates to its moral rivals.

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Human naturecharacterhumilityself-controlhuman problemmoral virtuetheological virtuephilosophical interpretationrival moral traditions
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The Book of Proverbs and Virtue Ethics
Integrating the Biblical and Philosophical Traditions
 , pp. 201 - 221
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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