Virtue of Necessity: Coleridge’s Unitarian Moral Theory

Ulmer argues for the cogency of Coleridge's early moralist viewpoint by reconstructing his Unitarian ideas of Necessity and original sin. Among other things, he emphasizes that Coleridge's Unitarian optimism hardly left him naive about evil and injustice. In a similar way, Coleridge's...

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Published in:Modern philology 2005-02, Vol.102 (3), p.372-404
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Christianity
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Ethics
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Guilt
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Original sin
Religious poetry
Theology
Unitarianism
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Unitarianism
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