Splendid Vices? Augustine For and Against Pagan Virtues

Medieval Philosophy & Theology 8 (2):105-127 (1999)
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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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