Agency, Nature, Transcendence, and Moralism: A Review of Recent Work in Moral Psychology

Recent work in moral and philosophical psychology provides valuable resources for religious ethicists, and this review examines contributions by Julia Annas, Annette Baier, John Bowlin, John McDowell, and William Wainwright. This literature raises important questions about the character of human mor...

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1. VerfasserIn: Mathewes, Charles T. 1969- (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Review
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Wiley-Blackwell 2000
In: Journal of religious ethics
Jahr: 2000, Band: 28, Heft: 2, Seiten: 297-328
Rezension von:The morality of happiness (New York : Oxford Univ. Press, 1995) (Mathewes, Charles T.)
The morality of happiness (New York [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 1993) (Mathewes, Charles T.)
weitere Schlagwörter:B Rezension
B Agency
B Supernaturalism
B Moralism
B Naturalism
B moralpsychology
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Zusammenfassung:Recent work in moral and philosophical psychology provides valuable resources for religious ethicists, and this review examines contributions by Julia Annas, Annette Baier, John Bowlin, John McDowell, and William Wainwright. This literature raises important questions about the character of human moral beingas naturalistic, about whether an explicitly supernatural morality can be other than inevitably “moralistic,” and about how that might be so. Nonetheless, religious ethicists should appropriate it only with care, particularly in its emphasis on naturalism, and the partiality of its appropriation of ancient thinkers.
ISSN:1467-9795
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/0384-9694.00049