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Jennifer A. Herdt is Professor of Christian Ethics at Yale University. She joined the Yale faculty in 2010, following eleven years on the faculty of theology at the University of Notre Dame. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University.

Her primary interests are in the history of moral thought since the 17th century, classical and contemporary virtue ethics, and contemporary Protestant social ethics and political theology. She is the author of Putting on Virtue: The Legacy of the Splendid Vices (Chicago: 2008), Religion and Faction in Hume’s Moral Philosophy (Cambridge: 1997), and of over 20 articles and book chapters that have appeared in a variety of journals. They deal with subjects ranging from humility and the code of the st ...more

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	Putting on Virtue: The Legacy of the Splendid Vices 3.88 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Forming Humanity: Redeeming the German Bildung Tradition 4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kierkegaard and Christian Faith by Paul Martens (editor), C. Stephen Evans (Editor), Richard Bauckham (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Virtue and the Moral Life: Theological and Philosophical Perspectives by William Werpehowski (Editor), Kathryn Getek Soltis (Editor), Mark A. Wilson (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Business Ethics and Catholic Social Thought by Daniel K. Finn (Editor), Gregory R. Beabout, David Cloutier really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Religion and Faction in Hume's Moral Philosophy (Cambridge Studies in Religion and Critical Thought, Series Number 3) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1997 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Great Wheel of Being: Ethics Beyond the Human 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	[Putting on Virtue: The Legacy of the Splendid Vices] [By: Herdt, Jennifer A.] [December, 2008] by Jennifer A. Herdt, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Understanding habituation requires grasping not only how we move from semblance of virtue to actual virtue by coming to act "for the right reasons" but also what constitute right reasons for acting.”
― Jennifer A. Herdt, Putting On Virtue: The Legacy of the Splendid Vices

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“The attempt to act virtuously in order to become virtuous is seen as essentially hypocritical.”
― Jennifer A. Herdt, Putting On Virtue: The Legacy of the Splendid Vices

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“a virtuous person chooses virtuous action for itself, not for its consequences.”
― Jennifer A. Herdt, Putting On Virtue: The Legacy of the Splendid Vices

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