![]() Capital vices are vices that address basic human ends or desires and are often generative of other vices. After observing the almost comedic status of the deadly sins in American culture, DeYoung provides a basic definition of virtues and vices: habits and dispositions, either excellent (virtues) or deleterious (vices), that shape our characters and can be acquired and strengthened through practice. The book begins with an apology, in the older sense of the term, for the capital vices as serious moral categories. Yet, at the same time, there is enough depth to the book that academic philosophers and theologians will find insights to reward their attention. It is one of those remarkable books that successfully presents complex topics at a level that is both interesting to and accessible for the average lay reader. Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung’s Glittering Vices: A New Look at the Seven Deadly Sins and Their Remedies is an engaging and sobering examination of the seven capital vices of the Christian moral tradition: vainglory, envy, sloth, avarice, wrath, gluttony, and lust. ![]()
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