Virtue and theological ethics
Subtitle: toward a renewed ethical method
By: Todd A. Salzman and Michael G. Lawler
Contributors: Lawler, Michael G., author
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Maryknoll, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9781626983045; 9781608337545
Subjects: Doctrines; Christian ethics; Catholic authors; Ethics; Methodology; Virtue; Virtues; Christian sociology; Catholic Church; Doctrinal Theology
Description: Salzman and Lawler draw upon foundational insights from virtue and theological ethics to propose a Catholic ethical methodological schema for the twenty-first century. Discussing topics such as natural law, conscience, and human dignity, the authors show how their new method may be used to treat issues of human sexuality in light of Catholic social teaching.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Abbreviations; title: Introduction; title: Theological Ethical Method; title: Our Theological Virtue Ethical Method; title: Virtue; title: Human Dignity; title: Neuroscience; title: Our Thesis Going Forward; title: 1. Catholic Ethical Method: An Overview; title: Relativism or Perspectivism?; title: Natural Law; title: Virtue Ethics and Neuroscience; title: Varieties of Love; title: 2. Virtuous Perspective; title: Virtue Epistemology; title: Emotions; title: Three Stages of the Concept of a Virtue; title: Christian Virtue Ethics; title: Christian Virtue Ethics: Martin Rhonheimer; title: 3. Virtuous Perspective and Ethical Method; title: 4. Sources for a Reconstructed Ethical Method; title: Virtuous Perspectives and the Selection, Interpretation, Prioritization, and Integration (SIPI) of the Sources of Ethical Knowledge; title: Christian Ethical Perspectives; title: 4. Human Dignity: Defining the Good; title: Dimensions of Human Dignity; title: Catholic Tradition and the Evolving Definition of Human and Sexual Dignity; title: Conservative and Progressive Ethicists and Human and Sexual Dignity; title: Conclusion; title: 5. Formulation and Justification of Principles and Norms: Seeking the Good; title: Virtue: Ethics and Epistemology; title: Conservative and Progressive Perspectives on Virtue Epistemology, Principles, and Norms; title: Normative Ethics and Virtue Ethics; title: Implications of a Virtuous Perspective for the Formulation and Justification of Norms; title: 6. Conscience and Virtuous Person; title: Conscience; title: Gaudium et Specs, Human Experience, and the Ethical Method; title: Conclusion; title: Index.