On Gifting, Receiving, and the Concept of Complementary Virtues: A Hermeneutic Key for Relational Ethics

This article explores the potential contribution of the concept of complementary virtues in the area of relational ethics and focuses especially on the magisterial notion of love as "(total) self-giving". Although the notion of love had an important influence on the personalist shift durin...

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Main Author: Höllinger, Stephanie 1989- (Author)
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Published: Peeters 2021
In: Marriage, families & spirituality
Year: 2021, Volume: 27, Issue: 1, Pages: 92-111
IxTheo Classification:KDB Roman Catholic Church
NCA Ethics
NCF Sexual ethics
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