Obama's list of virtues comes in pairs, and the pairings are mutually illuminating. I will, though, examine them not in…
Jennifer Herdt
Jennifer A. Herdt is Professor of Christian Ethics at Yale Divinity School. Her most recent book is Putting On Virtue: The Legacy of the Splendid Vices (Chicago 2008), and she is currently at work on "Imago Dei and the Bildungsroman: Ethical Formation and the Modern Novel."