Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction Alexandra Chadwick and Juhana Toivanen 1 On Medieval Background Juhana Toivanen and Alexandra Chadwick Part 1 The Nature and Origins of Vice2 The Nature of Moral Evil, Sin, and Human Freedom: Francisco Suárez's Early Radical View Henrik Lagerlund 3 Melanchthon, Salomon Alberti, and Francesco Piccolomini on Moral Psychology and the Physiology of Vice Matthias Roick 4 Male Tyranny as Vice Martina Reuter 5 Pride without the Fall: Hobbesian Pride and the Augustinian Tradition Alexandra Chadwick 6 Locke's Denial of Original Sin, and His Account of the Origins of Sin and Vice among Postlapsarian Humanity Diego Lucci 7 Responses to the Denial of Virtue in Butler and His Contemporaries Michael B. Gill Part 2 The Social Utility of Vice8 Self-Love and Social Interaction: Augustinian Perspectives Michael Moriarty 9 The Vices That Shape Societies: Passions, Honour, and Self-Love in Pierre Bayle's Thought Ana Carmona Aliaga 10 Occasionalism and Vice in Ethics and Politics, from Leiden to Bremen Michael Jaworzyn 11 The Desire for Esteem and the Duties of Sociality in Early Modern Protestant Natural Law Heikki Haara and Tim Stuart-Buttle 12 Marie de Gournay and Michel de Montaigne: Lying as a Vice for Public Utility Jil Muller Index.