Longing for the Good Life: Virtue Ethics after Protestantism
Longing for the Good Life: Virtue Ethics after Protestantism
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780567696830
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 19/05/2022
Width: 15.6 cm
Height: 23.4 cm
This book argues that Protestant theological ethics not only reveals basic virtue ethical characteristics, but also contributes significantly to a viable contemporary virtue ethics. Pieter Vos demonstrates that post-Reformation theological ethics still understands the good in terms of the good life, takes virtues as necessary for living the good life and considers human nature as a source of moral knowledge.
Vos approaches Protestant theology as an important bridge between pre-modern virtue ethics, shaped by Aristotle and transformed by Augustine of Hippo, and late modern understandings of morality. The volume covers a range of topics, going from eudaimonism and Calvinist ethics to Reformed scholastic virtue ethics and character formation in the work of Søren Kierkegaard. The author shows how Protestantism has articulated other-centered virtues from a theology of grace, affirmed ordinary life and emphasized the need of transformation of this life and its orders. Engaging with philosophy of the art of living, Neo-Aristotelianism and exemplarist ethics, he develops constructive contributions to a contemporary virtue ethics.
The book serves as an important addition to the study of virtue and deserves to be read and reflected on by those of us who are interested in Christian virtue theory. * Studies in Christian Ethics *
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