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Ratified by the Parliament of the World's Religions in 1993 and
expanded in 2018, "Towards a Global Ethic (An Initial
Declaration)," or the Global Ethic, expresses the minimal set of
principles shared by people-religious or not. Though it is a
secular document, the Global Ethic emerged after months of
collaborative, interreligious dialogue dedicated to identifying a
common ethical framework. This volume tests and contests the claim
that the Global Ethic's ethical directives can be found in the
world's religious, spiritual, and cultural traditions. The book
features essays by scholars of religion who grapple with the
practical implications of the Global Ethic's directives when
applied to issues like women's rights, displaced peoples, income
and wealth inequality, India's caste system, and more. The scholars
explore their respective religious traditions' ethical response to
one or more of these issues and compares them to the ethical
response elaborated by the Global Ethic. The traditions included
are Hinduism, Engaged Buddhism, Shi'i Islam, Sunni Islam,
Confucianism, Protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism, Indigenous
African Religions, and Human Rights. To highlight the complexities
within traditions, most essays are followed by a brief response by
an expert in the same tradition. Multi-Religious Perspectives on a
Global Ethic is of special interest to advanced students and
scholars whose work focuses on the religious traditions listed
above, on comparative religion, religious ethics, comparative
ethics, and common morality.
An inclusive and innovative account of religious ethical thinking
and acting in the world. Rather than merely applying existing forms
of philosophical ethics, Religious Ethics defines the meaning of
the field and presents a distinct and original method for ethical
reflection through comparisons of world religious traditions.
Written by leading scholars and educators in the field, this unique
volume offers an innovative approach that reveals how religions
concur and differ on moral matters, and provides practical guidance
on thinking and living ethically. The book's innovative
method--integrating descriptive, normative, practical, fundamental,
and metaethical dimensions of reflection--enables a far more
complex and nuanced exploration of religious ethics than any single
philosophical language, method, or theory can equal. First
introducing the task of religious ethics, the book moves through
each of the five dimensions of reflection to compare concepts such
as good and evil, perplexity and wisdom, truth and illusion, and
freedom and bondage in various theological contexts. Guides readers
on understanding, assessing, and comparing the moral teachings and
practices of world religions Applies a disciplined, scholarly
approach to the subject of religious ethics Explores the
distinctions between religious ethics and moral philosophy Provides
a methodology which can be applied to comparative ethics for
various religions Compares religious traditions to illuminate each
of the five dimensions of ethical and moral reflection Religious
Ethics: Meaning and Method will help anyone interested in the
relation between religion and ethics in the modern world, including
those involved in general and comparative religion studies,
religious and comparative ethics, and moral theory.
Ratified by the Parliament of the World's Religions in 1993 and
expanded in 2018, "Towards a Global Ethic (An Initial
Declaration)," or the Global Ethic, expresses the minimal set of
principles shared by people-religious or not. Though it is a
secular document, the Global Ethic emerged after months of
collaborative, interreligious dialogue dedicated to identifying a
common ethical framework. This volume tests and contests the claim
that the Global Ethic's ethical directives can be found in the
world's religious, spiritual, and cultural traditions. The book
features essays by scholars of religion who grapple with the
practical implications of the Global Ethic's directives when
applied to issues like women's rights, displaced peoples, income
and wealth inequality, India's caste system, and more. The scholars
explore their respective religious traditions' ethical response to
one or more of these issues and compares them to the ethical
response elaborated by the Global Ethic. The traditions included
are Hinduism, Engaged Buddhism, Shi'i Islam, Sunni Islam,
Confucianism, Protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism, Indigenous
African Religions, and Human Rights. To highlight the complexities
within traditions, most essays are followed by a brief response by
an expert in the same tradition. Multi-Religious Perspectives on a
Global Ethic is of special interest to advanced students and
scholars whose work focuses on the religious traditions listed
above, on comparative religion, religious ethics, comparative
ethics, and common morality.
This volume brings together eminent theologians, philosophers and
political theorists to discuss the relevance of theology and
theologically grounded moral reflection to contemporary America's
public life and argument. Avoiding the focus on hot-button issues,
shrill polemics, and sloganeering that so often dominate
discussions of religion and public life, the contributors address
such subjects as how religious understandings have shaped the moral
landscape of contemporary culture, the possible contributions of
theologically-informed argument to contemporary public life,
religious and moral discourse in a pluralistic society, and the
proper relationship between religion and culture. Indeed, in the
conviction that serious conversation about the type of questions
being explored in this volume is in short supply today, this volume
is organized in a manner designed to foster authentic dialogue.
Each of the book's four sections consists of an original essay by
an eminent scholar focusing on a specific aspect of the problem
that is the volume's focus followed by three responses that
directly engage its argument or explore the broader problematic it
addresses. The volume thus takes the form of a dialogue in which
the analyses of four eminent scholars are each engaged by three
interlocutors.
This volume brings together eminent theologians, philosophers and
political theorists to discuss the relevance of theology and
theologically grounded moral reflection to contemporary America's
public life and argument. Avoiding the focus on hot button issues,
shrill polemics and sloganeering that so often dominate discussions
of religion and public life, the authors address such questions as
how religious understandings have shaped the moral landscape of
contemporary culture; the possible contributions of theology and
theologically informed moral argument to contemporary public life;
the problem of religious and moral discourse in a pluralistic
society; and the proper relationship between religion and culture.
Indeed, in the conviction that serious conversation about the type
of questions being explored in this volume is in short supply
today, this volume is organized in a manner designed to foster
authentic dialogue.Each of the book's four sections consists of an
original essay by an eminent scholar focusing on a specific aspect
of the problem that is the volume's focus followed by three
responses that directly engage its argument or explore the broader
problematic it addresses. The volume thus takes the form of a
dialogue in which the analyses of four eminent scholars are each
engaged by three interlocutors.
Here, some of the most influential thinkers in theological and
philosophical ethics develop new directions for research in
contemporary moral thought. Taking as their starting point
Ricoeur's recent work on moral anthropology, the contributors set a
vital agenda for future conversations about ethics and just
community.
In this fertile collection of essays, prominent theologians,
philosophers, historians, and social scientists explore the mutual
entanglements of religious identity with political activity in
religiously plural societies. Four essays are devoted to each of
the three great religions of "The Book, " evidencing the variety of
conceptions of such a relation within the same religious tradition
and demonstrating how they came to be so conceived. In addition,
the three sections together display intriguing similarities between
the conceptions that are pertinent to the different traditions.
These range from definant theocracy to religious sanction of the
liberal, secular state.
This book argues that a basic problem in thinking about
understanding, temporality, and selfhood is due to "imitative"
modes of thought found in much traditional Western philosophy and
theology. Given this, the book examines the complex role that
"image" and "imitation" play in understanding and its world of
meaning, the import of language and narrative for configuring human
temporality, and the existence of self. The author's contention is
that when critically understood, mimesis, with its roots in
performative enactment, holds resources for reconsidering these
basic dimensions of human life beyond imitative paradigms of
thought.
The purpose of this book is to formulate a way of thinking about
issues of power, moral identity, and ethical norms by developing a
theory of responsibility from a specifically theological viewpoint;
the author thereby makes clear the significance for Christian
commitment of current reflection on moral responsibility. The
concept of responsibility is relatively new in ethics, but the
drastic extension of human power through various technological
developments has lately thrown into question the way human beings
conceive of themselves as morally accountable agents. It is this
radical extension of power in our time which poses the need for a
new paradigm of responsibility in ethics. Schweiker engages in an
informed way with what is therefore a highly topical discussion. By
developing a coherent theory of responsibility, and inquiring as to
its source, the author demonstrates the unique contribution of
Christian faith to ethics in our time.
Here, some of the most influential thinkers in theological and
philosophical ethics develop new directions for research in
contemporary moral thought. Taking as their starting point
Ricoeur's recent work on moral anthropology, the contributors set a
vital agenda for future conversations about ethics and just
community.
This book argues that a basic problem in thinking about
understanding, temporality, and selfhood is due to "imitative"
modes of thought found in much traditional Western philosophy and
theology. Given this, the book examines the complex role that
"image" and "imitation" play in understanding and its world of
meaning, the import of language and narrative for configuring human
temporality, and the existence of self. The author's contention is
that when critically understood, mimesis, with its roots in
performative enactment, holds resources for reconsidering these
basic dimensions of human life beyond imitative paradigms of
thought.
Does religious extremism represent an inevitable consequence of
firmly held beliefs in life-and-death situations? Is there a way
out? Gathering ethicists and scholars from the three major and
often conflicting monotheistic traditions, each was asked to
correlate a religious tradition's sacred texts and tradition with
the contemporary world's pluralism and claims about the inalienable
sanctity and dignity of human life. The result is that the reader
sees "human life before God" in new and profound ways. Contributors
include: Hilary Putnam Abdulaziz Sachedina Lisa Sowle Cahill
Michael Fishbane William Schweiker Tikva Frymer-Kensky Michael A.
Johnson Paul Mendes-Flohr Kevin Jung Lawrence Vogel Azizah al-Hibri
David Little Kohn Kelsay Seyyed Hossein Nasr
A noted philosopher and one of the most gifted and prolific
novelists of the twentieth century, Iris Murdoch has anticipated
and shaped many of the issues central to current ethics. These
include the relation between human identity and ideas of the good,
the effect of the modern critique of religion on moral thought, the
relation between ethics and literature, and the contemporary debate
about liberalism. In the most comprehensive engagement with
Murdoch's work to date, this volume gathers contributions from
philosophers, theologians, and a literary critic to explore the
significance of her ideas for contemporary thought.
Inspired by Murdoch's tenacious wrestling with basic questions of
human existence, these essays not only clarify her thoughts on
human goodness, but also move beyond the academy to reflect on how
we can and ought to undertake the human adventure in our daily
lives.
Contributors are Charles Taylor, Martha Nussbaum, David Tracy, Cora
Diamond, Maria Antonaccio, Elizabeth Dipple, Franklin I. Gamwell,
Stanley Hauerwas, and William Schweiker. This volume also includes
"Metaphysics and Ethics," a classic essay by Iris Murdoch.
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