Part I: Splendid vices and imperfect virtues
Aristotle and the puzzles of habituation
Augustine : disordered loves and the problem of pride
Aquinas : making space for pagan virtue
Erasmus : putting on Christ
The Jesuit theatrical tradition : acting virtuous
Part III: The exodus from virtue
Luther : saved hypocrites
Bunyan and Puritan life-writing : the virtue of self-examination
Part IV: The anatomy of virtue
Jesuits and Jansenists : Gracián and Pascal
Emancipating worldly virtue : Nicole, La Rochefoucauld, and Mandeville
Part V: Pagan virtue and modern moral philosophy
Rousseau and the virtue of authenticity
Hume and the bourgeois rehabilitation of pride
Kant and the pursuit of noumenal purity.
