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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
A Sense of Style : Beauty and the Christian Moral Life
:
Beauty and the Christian Moral Life
Beteiligte:
Hart, David Bentley
Erschienen:
Philosophy Documentation Center, 2019
Erschienen in:
Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, 39 (2019) 2, Seite 237-250
Sprache:
Ohne Angabe
DOI:
10.5840/jsce2019102416
ISSN:
1540-7942
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Beschreibung:
This essay addresses the alienation of aesthetics from ethics in the context of modernity. In examining the modern development of moral theory, it offers a critique of the dominant trends within that tradition, arguing that the result is a fragmented and disordered conception of the good life. Christian ethics, grounded in a conception of the beauty of God’s being as a disclosure of the true good, can reaffirm the connection between ethics and aesthetics, that beauty is not simply a matter of inward reflection but also of action toward the world, which gives content to moral life. Christian ethics ultimately requires a “sense of style” through which we are attracted to a life lived in imitation of Christ, and through which our conceptions of virtue are grounded in a desire to act in such a way as to manifest God’s beauty before the world.