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Paradoxical Virtue - Reinhold Niebuhr and the Virtue Tradition (Paperback)
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Paradoxical Virtue - Reinhold Niebuhr and the Virtue Tradition (Paperback)
Series: Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies
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After the re-emergence of the tradition of virtue ethics in the
early 1980s Reinhold Niebuhr has often served as a foil for authors
who locate themselves in that tradition. However, this exercise has
often proved controversial. This collection of essays continues
this work, across a wide range of subjects, with the aim of
avoiding some of the polemics that have previously accompanied it.
The central thesis of this book is that putting the work of
Reinhold Niebuhr and Christian realism in dialogue with
contemporary virtue theory is a profitable undertaking. An
introductory essay argues against locating Niebuhr as a
consequentialist and in favour of thinking of his work in terms of
a dispositional ethics Contributors take different positions on
whether Niebuhr's dispositional ethics should be considered a form
of virtue ethics or an alternative to virtue ethics. Several of the
articles relate Niebuhr and Christian realism to particular
virtues. Throughout there is an appreciation of the ways in which
any Niebuhrian approach to dispositional ethics or virtue must be
shaped by a sense of tragedy, paradox, or irony. The most moral
disposition will be one which includes doubts about its own virtue.
This volume allows for a repositioning of Niebuhr in the context of
contemporary moral theory as well as a rereading of the tradition
of virtue ethics in the light of a distinctly Protestant, Christian
realist and paradoxical view of virtue. As a result, it will be of
great interest to scholars of Niebuhr and Christian Ethics and
scholars working in Moral Philosophy and the Philosophy of Religion
more generally.
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