What has Ethics to Do with Rhetoric? Prolegomena to any Future Just War Theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12663452 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Grant Kaplan (0000-0002-1752-1609, Department of Religious StudiesLoyola University, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 31-49 |
| Publication date | 2005-02-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Theology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1462-317X • E-ISSN: 1743-1719 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1558/poth.6.1.31.56669 |
| OpenAlex | W1983453903 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
The following article argues that the United States bishops have adopted an objective rhetoric, meaning a rhetoric that focuses attention on the "content" of the argument instead of the person making the argument. Such a rhetoric is bound to fail after the abuse scandal that has beset the American Catholic Church. A subjective rhetoric assumes that the person making the argument cannot be separated from the content of the argument. The documents of the Second Vatican Council hint at the possibility of a subjective rhetoric that has, paradoxically, been employed with success by radical Islamic groups. Contemporary European theologians, especially Johannes Baptist Metz, have laid the groundwork for a subjective rhetoric through what they call "practical fundamental theology." Such an approach offers a model of apologetics that is more scriptural and more plausible than the approach currently taken by the United States bishops when attempting to discuss issues of war and peace
Apologetics · Argument (complex analysis · Bishops · Epistemology · Meaning (existential · Political science · Rhetoric · Sociology · Theology · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Law · Philosophy · Torture, Ethics, and Law · War, Ethics, and Justification
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |