Gratitude
An Intellectual History
Gratitude is often understood as etiquette rather than ethics, an emotion rather than politics. It was not always so. From Seneca to Shakespeare, gratitude was a public virtue. The circle of benefaction and return of service worked to make society strong. But at the beginning of the modern era, European thinkers began to imagine a political economy freed from the burdens of gratitude. Though this rethinking was part of a larger process of secularization, it was also a distorted byproduct of an impulse ultimately rooted in the teachings of Jesus and the apostle Paul. Christians believed that God stood at the center of the circle of gratitude.…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4813-0188-6
- EAN: 9781481301886
- Produktnummer: 34314327
- Verlag: Baylor University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 350 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 669 KB
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Peter J. Leithart
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