Human Beings and Ethics in the Thought of Herbert McCabe
Cartesian pictures of the human self and act-centred understandings of ethics dominate modern thought. Throughout his work, Herbert McCabe challenges these, and as such remains an important resource for philosophical and theological ethics. This paper lays out McCabe’s philosophical anthropology, sh...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2024
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New blackfriars
Year: 2024, Volume: 105, Issue: 3, Pages: 294-308 |
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McCabe, Herbert 1926-2001
/ Theological anthropology
/ Theological ethics
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Ethics
B Aquinas B Herbert McCabe B Faith B Theological Anthropology B Wittgenstein |
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| Summary: | Cartesian pictures of the human self and act-centred understandings of ethics dominate modern thought. Throughout his work, Herbert McCabe challenges these, and as such remains an important resource for philosophical and theological ethics. This paper lays out McCabe’s philosophical anthropology, showing how he draws on Wittgenstein to revive a Thomist account of the human person. It then shows how this anthropology feeds into a philosophical ethics, focused on human flourishing and the possibility of life being meaningful. This, in turn, underwrites a theological ethics, according to which the human person flourishes ultimately through graced participation in the divine life. The paper concludes with a discussion of McCabe’s account of faith as participation in the divine self-knowledge. |
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| ISSN: | 1741-2005 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: New blackfriars
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/nbf.2024.1 |