Bonaventure on Moral Motivation: Trajectories of Exemplification in His Treatment of Voluntary Poverty
IN THIS ESSAY I EXPLORE THE THEME OF MORAL MOTIVATION IN BONAventure's writings on evangelical poverty. By searching for an implied account of moral motivation in these more directly practical writings, I chart three trajectories of exemplification: meditation on the life of the exemplar as stu...
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| Language: | English |
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Philosophy Documentation Center
2005
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Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
Year: 2005, Volume: 25, Issue: 2, Pages: 109-136 |
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| Summary: | IN THIS ESSAY I EXPLORE THE THEME OF MORAL MOTIVATION IN BONAventure's writings on evangelical poverty. By searching for an implied account of moral motivation in these more directly practical writings, I chart three trajectories of exemplification: meditation on the life of the exemplar as student and teacher (personal motivation), meditation on the exemplar as one who responds in a mediating way to social changes (social motivation), and meditation on the exemplar with respect to future control of one's own environment (temporal motivation). By examining each of these trajectories in Bonaventure's thought with reference to the case of voluntary poverty, I offer an account of moral motivation that embraces individual and psychological, as well as historical and institutional, aspects of moral exemplarity. |
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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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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/jsce20052528 |