Vice, Sin, and Sociability in Early Modern Philosophy - (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History) by Alexandra Chadwick & Juhana Toivanen

About the Book

An invesigation into historical theories of human wickedness and its social and political implications from a philosophical perspective.

Book Synopsis

Vice, Sin, and Sociability in Early Modern Philosophy investigates ideas of human wickedness and its social and political implications. The book charts early modern discussions stemming from the Augustinian conception of original sin and earlier virtue theories, and shows the complex and innovative reception of traditional ideas. The twelve chapters investigate the nature of vice and sin and their origins in the soul, the body, and society, and elaborate on self-love, pride, honour, lying, and the desire for esteem.

Contributors to this volume: Ana Carmona Aliaga, Alexandra Chadwick, Michael B. Gill, Heikki Haara, Michael Jaworzyn, Henrik Lagerlund, Diego Lucci, Michael Moriarty, Jil Muller, Martina Reuter, Matthias Roick, Tim Stuart-Buttle, and Juhana Toivanen.

About the Author

Alexandra Chadwick, PhD (2017) is Academy Research Fellow at the University of Jyväskylä. Her work focuses on early modern moral and political philosophy and its relationship to philosophical psychology.

Juhana Toivanen, PhD (2009) is Research Coordinator at Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. He has published on medieval philosophical psychology and political philosophy, including the monographs Perception and the Internal Senses (2013) and The Political Animal in Medieval Philosophy (2021).