Longing for the Good Life Virtue Ethics After Protestantism

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Synopsis

This book argues that Protestant theological ethics not only reveals basic virtue ethical characteristics, but also contributes significantly to a viable contemporary virtue ethics. Pieter Vos demonstrates that post-Reformation theological ethics still understands the good in terms of the good life, takes virtues as necessary for living the good life and considers human nature as a source of moral knowledge. Vos approaches Protestant theology as an important bridge between pre-modern virtue ethics, shaped by Aristotle and transformed by Augustine of Hippo, and late modern understandings of morality. The volume covers a range of topics, going from eudaimonism and Calvinist ethics to Reformed scholastic virtue ethics and character formation in the work of Søren Kierkegaard. The author shows how Protestantism has articulated other-centered virtues from a theology of grace, affirmed ordinary life and emphasized the need of transformation of this life and its orders. Engaging with philosophy of the art of living, Neo-Aristotelianism and exemplarist ethics, he develops constructive contributions to a contemporary virtue ethics.

Book details

Series:
T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics
Author:
Pieter Vos
ISBN:
9780567695109
Related ISBNs:
9780567695079
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages:
224
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2020-11-12
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2020
Copyright by:
Pieter Vos 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality