Emily Dumler-Winckler's *Modern Virtue: Mary Wollstonecraft and a Tradition of Dissent* (Oxford University Press, 2022)

Discussion of virtue ethics has often been polarized between those who defend a premodern notion of virtue, and those who reject talk of virtue altogether in the name of modern liberation. In Modern Virtue, Emily Dumler-Winckler draws on the work of the eighteenth-century feminist Mary Wollstonecraft to argue that cultivation of the virtues and contestation about them are part and parcel of the goods that Christians and democratic societies share in common. Dumler-Winckler shows how Wollstonecraft revolutionized ancient traditions of the virtues in modern ways for feminist and abolitionist aims. Three experts from fields including the history of Christianity, religious ethics, and the philosophy of religion will assess the book and engage its author. How might Dumler-Winckler's account of Wollstonecraft open up new conversations in these fields?