Putting on Virtue Without Putting Off Feminists
M ary W ollstonecraft's Religious Moral Imagination
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14760259 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emily Dumler‐winckler (0000-0003-4101-5172, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 342-367 |
| Publication date | 2015-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Religious Ethics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0384-9694 • E-ISSN: 1467-9795 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jore.12100 |
| OpenAlex | W1479837659 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 21 |
M ary W ollstonecraft's account of virtue discourse and formation, which deploys ancient and medieval ethical resources for modern purposes, challenges a prevalent narrative in C hristian ethics today. Several prominent C hristian virtue ethicists have left the false impression that serious reflection on the virtues depends on pre‐modern traditions and the eschewal of modern resources. Troubled by skeptical quandaries and the difficulty of adjudicating conflicting claims about virtue, they are concerned with securing a pre‐modern court of appeals. Many feminists worry that these appeals unduly constrain because they naturalize what is contingent and fix what should be open to debate. W ollstonecraft does not share the skeptical concerns and so has no need for metaethical appeals. Adapting E dmund B urke's moral philosophy, her use of virtue discourse deploys his metaphor of “the wardrobe of the moral imagination” to more religious, radical, and democratic ends. This way of proceeding signals the possibility of a rapprochement between feminists of various stripes and those interested in deploying the discourse of the virtues for contemporary C hristian ethics
Aesthetics · Environmental ethics · Epistemic virtue · Epistemology · Metaphor · Narrative · Political science · Skepticism · Sociology · Theology · Virtue · Virtue ethics · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies · Philosophy · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment
Three rival versions of moral enquiry
Moral Prejudices
Equivocal Beings
Putting On Virtue
Signifying Woman
Caring
The Promise of Happiness
Theology and Social Theory
Books in Review
Natural Goodness
Finite and Infinite Goods
After virtue
Wollstonecraft as a Critic of Burke
Family Feuds
Aesthetics and Politics in Edmund Burke
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |