The Problem of Acedia in Eastern Orthodox Morality

Eastern Orthodox accounts of acedia are often neglected in Catholic and Protestant circles, yet offer a range of insights for contemporary virtue ethics and moral psychology. Acedia is a complex concept with shades of apathy, hate, and desire that poses grave problems for the moral life and human we...

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Autor principal: Jones, Christopher D. (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
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Publicado: Sage [2019]
En: Studies in Christian ethics
Año: 2020, Volumen: 33, Número: 3, Páginas: 336-351
Clasificaciones IxTheo:AE Psicología de la religión
KAB Cristianismo primitivo
KDF Iglesia ortodoxa 
NCB Ética individual
Otras palabras clave:B Practices
B Acedía
B Virtue
B Cassian
B Evagrius
B Moral Psychology
Acceso en línea: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Sumario:Eastern Orthodox accounts of acedia are often neglected in Catholic and Protestant circles, yet offer a range of insights for contemporary virtue ethics and moral psychology. Acedia is a complex concept with shades of apathy, hate, and desire that poses grave problems for the moral life and human wellbeing. This is because acedia disorders reasoning, desiring, willing, and acting, and causes various harms to relationships. Evagrius Ponticus and John Cassian discuss acedia in the context of a virtue ethic ordered to human flourishing that includes practices to combat vices and build character. The result is an Orthodox conception of virtue and moral psychology that rewards ecumenical attention.
ISSN:0953-9468
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Studies in Christian ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0953946819847652