Divorce, Disorientation, and Remarriage

This paper asks three inter-related questions, proceeding chronologically through a divorcee’s experience: (i) is it responsible and rational to make an unconditional marital vow in the first place? (ii) does divorce break that unconditional marital vow? And the main question: (iii) can the divorcee...

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发表在:Ethical theory and moral practice
主要作者: Cowley, Christopher 1967- (Author)
格式: 电子 文件
语言:English
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出版: Springer Science + Business Media B. V [2020]
In: Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2020, 卷: 23, 发布: 3/4, Pages: 531-544
Further subjects:B Divorce
B Disorientation
B Promises
B Marriage
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总结:This paper asks three inter-related questions, proceeding chronologically through a divorcee’s experience: (i) is it responsible and rational to make an unconditional marital vow in the first place? (ii) does divorce break that unconditional marital vow? And the main question: (iii) can the divorcee make a second unconditional marital vow in all moral seriousness? To the last question I answer yes. I argue that the divorce process is so disorienting - to use Amy Harbin’s term - as to transform the divorcee and therefore partly release her from the original vow. Arguing this will require a specific understanding of personal identity and change.
ISSN:1572-8447
Contains:Enthalten in: Ethical theory and moral practice
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10677-019-10036-4