RT Article
T1 The Virtue of "Selling Out": Compromise as a Moral Transaction
JF Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
VO 37
IS 1
SP 3
OP 23
A1 Yeager, Diane M.
A2 Herman, Stewart W. 1909-2006
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1572181664
AB In this rehabilitation of the relational transaction of compromising, we follow Paul Ricoeur in arguing that at the intersection of diverse orders of value, compromising rises to the level of a moral duty. Thus, an ethics of compromise, rooted in recognition theory, provides a virtuous means of moral engagement with otherness in the context of pluralism. Virtue theory needs to move in an interactive direction by (a) enlisting moral epistemology, for a shift in focus from the individual agent (personal integrity) to the interaction of agents (social cooperation); (b) attending to the political theorists and sociologists who ground meaningful compromise in mutual recognition; and (c) tailoring such recognition to bounded human capacities for rationality and empathy, via "psychological realism"—all in service of attenuating the discomfort and even moral pain that agents may feel when called upon to compromise.
DO 10.1353/sce.2017.0003