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A Sincere and Teachable Heart: Self-Denying Virtue in British Intellectual Life, 1736-1859

A Sincere and Teachable Heart: Self-Denying Virtue in British Intellectual Life, 1736-1859

Bellon, Richard

Hardcover

Sports GeneralBritish History

ISBN10: 9004263365
ISBN13: 9789004263369
Publisher: Brill
Published: Nov 14 2014
Pages: 277
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
In A Sincere and Teachable Heart: Self-Denying Virtue in British Intellectual Life, 1736-1859, Richard Bellon demonstrates that respectability and authority in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain were not grounded foremost in ideas or specialist skills but in the self-denying virtues of patience and humility. Three case studies clarify this relationship between intellectual standards and practical moral duty. The first shows that the Victorians adapted a universal conception of sainthood to the responsibilities specific to class, gender, social rank, and vocation. The second illustrates how these ideals of self-discipline achieved their form and cultural vigor by analyzing the eighteenth-century moral philosophy of Joseph Butler, John Wesley, Samuel Johnson, and William Paley. The final reinterprets conflict between the liberal Anglican Noetics and the conservative Oxford Movement as a clash over the means of developing habits of self-denial.

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