Selves, Virtues, Odd Genres, and Alien Guides: An Approach to Religious Ethics
Complex tensions define us, and that is why rational evaluative analysis and the deliberate application of principles to cases can, at best, claim to account for only a limited register in the full compass of ethical voice. Close analysis of brief texts from the "Mencius" and Dante's...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
1997
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Journal of religious ethics
Year: 1997, Volume: 25, Issue: 3, Pages: 127-155 |
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| Summary: | Complex tensions define us, and that is why rational evaluative analysis and the deliberate application of principles to cases can, at best, claim to account for only a limited register in the full compass of ethical voice. Close analysis of brief texts from the "Mencius" and Dante's "Inferno" discloses in both an approach to ethical reflection that aims to expand the capacity for virtue, the ethical skillfulness exercised in response and evaluation, through affective engagement of the reader. This approach, a kind of "re- flexive tropology," may involve us in a Han-tan walk. Nevertheless, if virtue and models of the self are interconnected, then right self-understanding is where the foundations of virtue are laid. Because the religious orientation calls into question the false fixities that inform ordinary activities and ordi- nary models of the self, it is crucial to the work of distinguishing among true and false forms of virtue. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9795 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics
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