ETHICS OF BEWILDERMENT

An ethics of bewilderment, which differs dramatically from the more familiar ethics of ease, is best understood through poetic presentations. Using examples drawn from Chinese and Western sources—notably Du Fu and Dante—this inquiry treats bewilderment as both an emotion and a virtue. Both these for...

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1. VerfasserIn: Yearley, Lee H. 1940- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Wiley-Blackwell 2010
In: Journal of religious ethics
Jahr: 2010, Band: 38, Heft: 3, Seiten: 436-460
weitere Schlagwörter:B Zhuangzi
B Virtue
B Compassion
B bewilderment
B Emotion
B Du Fu
B Dante
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Zusammenfassung:An ethics of bewilderment, which differs dramatically from the more familiar ethics of ease, is best understood through poetic presentations. Using examples drawn from Chinese and Western sources—notably Du Fu and Dante—this inquiry treats bewilderment as both an emotion and a virtue. Both these forms of bewilderment involve an acknowledgment of how minimal is the ethical confidence we have, given the feelings we have and the judgments we must make, but they also extend in productive ways the implications of that acknowledgment.
ISSN:1467-9795
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9795.2010.00438.x