Homo religiosus: does spirituality have a place in neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics?
In this article I seek to show the importance of spirituality for a neo-Aristotelian account of the good life'. First, I lay out my account of spirituality. Second, I discuss why the issue of the place of spirituality in the good life has often either been ignored or explicitly excluded from c...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2015]
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Religious studies
Year: 2015, Volume: 51, Issue: 3, Pages: 335-346 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Aristoteles 384 BC-322 BC
/ Philosophy
/ Spirituality
/ Religion
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism |
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| Summary: | In this article I seek to show the importance of spirituality for a neo-Aristotelian account of the good life'. First, I lay out my account of spirituality. Second, I discuss why the issue of the place of spirituality in the good life has often either been ignored or explicitly excluded from consideration by neo-Aristotelians. I suggest that a lot turns on how one understands the ethical naturalism' to which neo-Aristotelians are committed. Finally, I argue that through a deeper exploration of the evaluative standpoint from within our human form of life as meaning-seeking animals' we can come to better appreciate the importance of spirituality for human beings throughout recorded history up to the present and why we can be described as homo religiosus. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-901X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412515000268 |