How Shall We Read the History of Ethics?
This response suggests that in writing the history of ethics, it is important to take seriously what the principals wrote and believed, distinguishing it carefully from our own responses to their writings, or from subsequent uses to which their writings may have been put. For example, when reading T...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2019]
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Journal of religious ethics
Year: 2019, Volume: 47, Issue: 2, Pages: 417-424 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Thomas Aquinas 1225-1274
/ Vitoria, Francisco de 1485-1546
/ Just war
/ Rejection of
/ American Exceptionalism
/ Ethics
/ History
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism NCA Ethics VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Historiography
B Conquest B Empire B Thomas Aquinas B Francisco de Vitoria B Just War |
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| Summary: | This response suggests that in writing the history of ethics, it is important to take seriously what the principals wrote and believed, distinguishing it carefully from our own responses to their writings, or from subsequent uses to which their writings may have been put. For example, when reading Thomas Aquinas and Francisco de Vitoria on just war against non-Christian peoples, forcible conversion and conquest are clearly condemned. Whatever the attitudes of their contemporaries, not to mention later thinkers up to the present, there is no foundation in Aquinas and Vitoria for holy war or "exceptionalism," American or otherwise. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9795 |
| Reference: | Kritik von "Francisco de Vitoria and Francisco Suárez on Religious Authority and Cause for Justified War (2018)"
Kritik in "A Response to G. Scott Davis (2019)" |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/jore.12260 |