Hauerwas Among the Virtues

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ID14760382
AuthorsJennifer A Herdt (0000-0003-2138-9134, Yale University, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume40
Issue2
Pages202-227
Publication date2012-06-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Religious Ethics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0384-9694 • E-ISSN: 1467-9795
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9795.2012.00518.x
OpenAlexW1499720258
LanguageEN
References cited18

Despite the fact that Stanley Hauerwas has not taken up many of the topics normally associated with virtue ethics, has explicitly distanced himself from the enterprise known as “virtue ethics,” and throughout his career has preferred other categories of analysis, ranging from character and agency to practices and liturgy, it is nevertheless clear that his work has had a deep and transformative impact on the recovery of virtue within Christian ethics, and that this impact has largely to do with the ways in which his thought resists normalization. This essay traces the evolution of Hauerwas's reflections on virtue and the virtues over the course of his career, with special attention to how this has been bound up with an increasingly emphatic theological particularism that has remained ambivalent between what I term “comprehensive” versus “exclusive” particularism. I argue that it is important to distinguish between these, and suggest that grasping the destructive tendencies of “exclusive” particularism should cement our commitment to shouldering the responsibilities associated with comprehensive particularism

Agency (philosophy · Ambivalence · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Normalization (sociology · Psychoanalysis · Social science · Sociology · Transformative learning · Virtue · Virtue ethics · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Theology and Philosophy of Evil

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