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Splendid Vices? Augustine For and Against Pagan Virtues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 July 2001

T. H. IRWIN
T. H. IRWIN
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Cornell University
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Abstract

Augustine is notorious for his claim that the so-called virtues of pagans are not genuine virtues at all. Bayle refers to this claim when he describes the sort of virtue that one ought to be willing to attribute to atheists:

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Research Article
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Medieval Philosophy and Theology , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , September 1999 , pp. 105 - 127
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© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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