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Lieferstatus:	Vorankündigung
Veröffentlichung:	ANGEKÜNDIGT (November 2024)
Genre:	Philosophie
ISBN:	9781647124588
EAN-Code:	9781647124588
Verlag:	Georgetown University Press
Einband:	Gebunden
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 229 mm / B 152 mm / D
Seiten:	264
Bewertung:	Keine Bewertung vor Veröffentlichung möglich.

Inhalt:

"This book reconsiders the relationship between aesthetics and theological ethics. The primary question it seeks to answer is whether artistic creativity is a morally relevant activity. Drawing on the work of Jonathan Edwards and Thomas Aquinas, Choi argues that the arts are the cultural medium through which we can better understand what is morally possible, and that aesthetic objects can serve as snapshots of a particular community's perspectives on the good life. Art, in other words, offers glimpses not only into competing moral visions within society but also the extent to which these contested moral views are understood. The arts, in Choi's view, provide a way of assessing the limits and possibilities of moral reasoning, the contextuality of moral discernment, and the need for moral thinking that is dialogical and dialectical"--