The Moral Status of Self-Love in Early Reformed Ethics
Reformed moral philosophers in the period of early orthodoxy (ca. 1550-ca. 1650) continue a medieval tradition of engaging moral questions in conversation with Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, and they often address the moral status of self-love in connection with the virtue of friendship. There...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2023
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Journal of Early Modern Christianity
Year: 2023, Volume: 10, Issue: 2, Pages: 241-257 |
| IxTheo Classification: | FA Theology KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KDD Protestant Church NBE Anthropology NCA Ethics VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Self-love
B Lambert Daneau B Reformed Orthodoxy B Virtue Ethics B Practical Philosophy |
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| Summary: | Reformed moral philosophers in the period of early orthodoxy (ca. 1550-ca. 1650) continue a medieval tradition of engaging moral questions in conversation with Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, and they often address the moral status of self-love in connection with the virtue of friendship. There is broad agreement among these authors that self-love is not only not necessarily sinful, but that some kinds of self-love are morally good and that self-love is the source and rule for love of one's neighbor. Lambert Daneau's Ethices Christianae, however, stands in a more complex relationship to this consensus. |
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| ISSN: | 2196-6656 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Early Modern Christianity
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/jemc-2023-2046 |