Derek Mcallister
Biographic Data
| ID | 1114983 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Derek Mcallister |
| GIVEN NAMES | Derek |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcallister |
| SIGNATURE | MCALLISTER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Baylor University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5540-7911 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Moral enhancement, acquired virtue, and theism
Recently, Brummett and Crutchfield advanced two critiques of theists who object to moral enhancement. First, a conceptual critique: theists who oppose moral enhancement commonly do so because virtue is thought to be acquired only via a special kind of process. Enhancement does not involve such processes. Hence, enhancement cannot produce virtue. Yet theists also commonly claim that God is perfectly virtuous and not subject to processes. If virtue…
A Perspectival Account of Acedia in the Writings of Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard is well-known as an original philosophical thinker, but less known is his reliance upon and development of the Christian tradition of the Seven Deadly Sins, in particular the vice of acedia, or sloth. As acedia has enjoyed renewed interest in the past century or so, commentators have attempted to pin down one or another Kierkegaardian concept (e.g., despair, heavy-mindedness, boredom, etc.) as the embodiment of the vice, but the…
A Perspectival Account of Acedia in the Writings of Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard is well-known as an original philosophical thinker, but less known is his reliance upon and development of the Christian tradition of the Seven Deadly Sins, in particular the vice of acedia, or sloth. As acedia has enjoyed renewed interest in the past century or so, commentators have attempted to pin down one or another Kierkegaardian concept (e.g., despair, heavy-mindedness, boredom, etc.) as the embodiment of the vice, but the…
A Perspectival Account of Acedia in the Writings of Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard is well-known as an original philosophical thinker, but less known is his reliance upon and development of the Christian tradition of the Seven Deadly Sins, in particular the vice of acedia, or sloth. As acedia has enjoyed renewed interest in the past century or so, commentators have attempted to pin down one or another Kierkegaardian concept (e.g., despair, heavy-mindedness, boredom, etc.) as the embodiment of the vice, but the…
Moral enhancement, acquired virtue, and theism
Recently, Brummett and Crutchfield advanced two critiques of theists who object to moral enhancement. First, a conceptual critique: theists who oppose moral enhancement commonly do so because virtue is thought to be acquired only via a special kind of process. Enhancement does not involve such processes. Hence, enhancement cannot produce virtue. Yet theists also commonly claim that God is perfectly virtuous and not subject to processes. If virtue…
Epistemology (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Theology and Philosophy of Evil (2 works) · Augustinian Studies and Theology (1 work) · Boredom (1 work) · Consequentialism (1 work) · Economics (1 work) · Environmental ethics (1 work) · Medieval Philosophy and Theology (1 work) · Metaphysics (1 work)