Exemplarity Between Tradition and Critique

Moral exemplarism, which insists on the centrality of particular embodiments of exemplary virtue to the moral life, is currently receiving significant attention within moral philosophy as well as theological and religious ethics. This introductory essay situates the contributions made by this focus...

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1. VerfasserIn: Herdt, Jennifer A. 1967- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Wiley-Blackwell [2019]
In: Journal of religious ethics
Jahr: 2019, Band: 47, Heft: 3, Seiten: 552-565
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Moralisches Handeln / Vorbild / Religion / Ethik
RelBib Classification:AB Religionsphilosophie; Religionskritik; Atheismus
NCB Individualethik
NCC Sozialethik
weitere Schlagwörter:B moral exemplar
B Judith Butler
B Michel Foucault
B Stanley Hauerwas
B Critique
B Jeffrey Stout
B democratic piety
B Discipleship
B Virtue
B Linda Zagzebski
B self-cultivation
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Zusammenfassung:Moral exemplarism, which insists on the centrality of particular embodiments of exemplary virtue to the moral life, is currently receiving significant attention within moral philosophy as well as theological and religious ethics. This introductory essay situates the contributions made by this focus issue on moral exemplarity in relation to the history of attention to moral exemplars, the twentieth-century turn to virtue, philosopher Linda Zagzebski's exemplarist moral theory, Stanley Hauerwas's particularist embrace of Christian discipleship, Foucauldian turns to critique and self-cultivation, and the significance of exemplars in Jeffrey Stout's democratic piety. Arguing for the critical importance of articulating the authority of exemplars, this essay points to the ways in which the present focus can assist us to navigate between the shoals of nostalgic deference to tradition and dismissive critiques of authoritarianism.
ISSN:1467-9795
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/jore.12277