Interior Salishan Creation Stories: Historical Ethics in the Making
The descriptive and reflective aspects of ethical naturalism as a comparative approach are set in the context of an inquiry into the story tradi- tion of Interior Salishan peoples. In approaching cosmogonic stories of these traditions from a descriptive perspective, I observe these stories as practi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
1992
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Journal of religious ethics
Year: 1992, Volume: 20, Issue: 2, Pages: 353-387 |
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| Summary: | The descriptive and reflective aspects of ethical naturalism as a comparative approach are set in the context of an inquiry into the story tradi- tion of Interior Salishan peoples. In approaching cosmogonic stories of these traditions from a descriptive perspective, I observe these stories as practices, distinctive in their process as well as their content. The practice of these stories reveals ethical relationships structured in a manner that contrasts dramatically with ethics as an investigation into first principles, with formalist approaches that seek a universal rationality, and with narrative ethics that take a meta-narrative approach to meaning. These stories "tell" an Interior Salishan cultural process of constructing a dynamic and historical measure of meaning and value-a multidimensional economy of meaning that can be characterized as traditional individualism. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9795 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics
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