RT Article
T1 The Particularity of Sanctity: Why Paradigms of Exemplarity Matter for Christian Virtue Ethics
JF Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
VO 39
IS 1
SP 111
OP 127
A1 Clark, Patrick Mahaney
LA English
PB Philosophy Documentation Center
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1670221512
AB This paper draws upon the meta-ethical insights of Bernard Lonergan and Raimond Gaita to bolster the foundational claims of Linda Zagzebski's exemplarist moral theory. I aim to refine Zagzebski's approach by pointing out how a community's inevitable prioritization of a given paradigm of moral exemplarity plays a decisive role in the trajectory of its ethical reasoning. I conclude by arguing that within the Christian community, encounters with sanctity should determine the identification of virtues rather than vice versa.