(When) Is There a Christian Responsibility to Gossip?
This paper offers a Thomistic defense of gossip as a licit means of protecting third parties from harm by known offenders. After first clarifying what constitutes gossip, it draws from Thomas Aquinas to identify the narrow set of conditions under which gossip might be both permissible and obligatory...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Philosophy Documentation Center
2022
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Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
Year: 2022, Volume: 42, Issue: 1, Pages: 135-152 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages NCA Ethics |
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| Summary: | This paper offers a Thomistic defense of gossip as a licit means of protecting third parties from harm by known offenders. After first clarifying what constitutes gossip, it draws from Thomas Aquinas to identify the narrow set of conditions under which gossip might be both permissible and obligatory. It concludes by specifying how the duty to gossip might work in Christian institutions, and especially within institutions where there are weak systems of formal accountability. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-2176 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Society of Christian Ethics, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
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