Friendship and virtue ethics in the Book of Job
Examines friendship as a moral category in the Book of Job through an Aristotelian virtue ethics perspective.
| Summary: | Examines friendship as a moral category in the Book of Job through an Aristotelian virtue ethics perspective. Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter Summary -- 1 Introduction to Virtue Ethics -- Virtue Ethics Emphasizes Character over Action -- Virtue Ethics Deemphasizes Moral Rules -- Virtue Ethics Includes a Teleological Understanding of the Role of Virtue in the Human Life -- Three Representatives of Virtue Ethics -- Aristotle -- Aristotelian Methodology -- The Role of the Affections in Ethics -- Greek Tragedy and Moral Education -- Alasdair MacIntyre -- Virtues in Heroic Societies -- Practices as the Social Context for Virtues -- The ''Narrative Self'' -- Bruce Birch -- The Bible and Character Formation -- Biblical Narrative and Moral Identity -- Character Ethics -- 2 Friendship in Aristotle and the Wider Hellenistic World -- Greek Terminology -- Friendship in Aristotle -- Friendship and the Polis -- Friendship in the Hellenistic Tradition -- Another Self -- The False Friend -- Flattery vs. Frankness -- 3 The Ethics of Reading: Friendship in the Old Testament -- Hebrew Terminology -- Friendship in Hebrew Narratives -- Friendship in the Psalms, Prophets, and Wisdom Literature -- Summary -- Genre and Ethics -- Genre and the Book of Job -- The Moral Demand of Friendship: Job 6:28-9 -- Appendix to Chapter 3 Antecedent Texts in the Ancient Near East -- 4 Friendship in the Poetic Dialogue -- The First Cycle: Job 4:1-7:21 -- Setting the Scene: The Consolation of the ''Wise'' -- Job's Response: A Place for Lament -- Job's Expectations of Friendship: Courageous Compassion -- Job's Expectations of Friendship: Selfless Intentions -- A Relation of ''Facing'': Persons vs. Propositions -- The Second Cycle: Job 15:1-17:16 -- Setting the Scene: Job's ''Place'' in Wisdom's Order -- A Critique of Job's Character: A Haughty Heart and Erring Eyes. |
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| ISBN: | 1108757170 |