Heroes, saints, & ordinary morality

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In Heroes, Saints, and Ordinary Morality, he suggests how virtue ethics, properly understood, undermines all notions of moral complacency and makes possible the movement of character toward sainthood.

An incisive and ambitious contribution to debates over the nature and limits of both commonsense morality and virtue."―Terrence Reynolds, Department of Theology, 5/5(1).

Heroes, Saints, and Ordinary Morality shifts the way we regard ourselves in relationship to those we admire from afar—it asks us not only to admire, but to emulate as well—further, it challenges us to actively seek the acquisition of virtue as seen in the lives of heroes and saints, to learn from them, a dynamic aspect of ethical behavior that goes beyond the mere avoidance 5/5(1).

heroes and saints, especially the moral philosophies of J. Urmson and David Heyd. Flescher argues that they wrongly assume a "minimalist" account of mo rality, which presumes that ordinary persons, not heroes or saints, provide the basis for what is "good"; in their judgment, heroes and saints are unusual eccen.

Read the full-text online edition of Heroes, Saints & Ordinary Morality (). Home» Browse» Books» Book Heroes, Heroes, Saints & Ordinary Morality. Heroes, Saints, and Ordinary Morality proposes a significant shift in the way in which we think about moral requirement in everyday society.

I argue that ordinary assumptions about what we perceive and accept our duty to be ought to be more influenced by the moral insights of heroes and saints than they normally are. "With Heroes, Saints, & Ordinary Morality, Andrew Flescher joins the ranks of the very best virtue ethicists working today.

Flescher offers here a stunning intellectual achievement, but even more importantly he prods the reader to reflect on moral complacency while Price: $   Heroes, Saints, and Ordinary Morality shifts the way we regard ourselves in relationship to those we admire from afar—it asks us not only to admire, but to emulate as well—further, it challenges us.

Moral virtues can best be acquired through practice and habit. Virtue is a mean lying between two vices. Virtue Ethics Virtue and the Moral Life—Bernard Mayo We learn the most about ethics by looking at the lives of saints and heroes.

Saints and heroes primarily give us examples to follow. Kant would reject the insights of virtue ethics. Heroes, Saints, and Ordinary Morality shifts the way we regard ourselves in relationship to those we admire from afar -- it asks us not only to admire, but to emulate as well -- further, it challenges us to actively seek the acquisition of virtue as seen in the lives of heroes and saints, to learn from them, a dynamic aspect of ethical behavior that goes beyond the mere avoidance.

"Heroes, Saints, and Ordinary Morality" shifts the way we regard ourselves in relationship to those we admire from afar - it asks us not only to admire, but to emulate as well - further, it challenges us to actively seek the acquisition of virtue as seen in the lives of heroes and saints, to learn from them, a dynamic aspect of ethical behavior that goes beyond the 3/5(1).

In Heroes, Saints, and Ordinary Morality, he suggests how virtue ethics, properly understood, undermines all notions of moral complacency and makes possible the movement of character toward sainthood. An incisive and ambitious contribution to debates over the nature and limits of both commonsense morality and virtue."—.

Heroes, Saints, and Ordinary Morality最新书评, 热门书评. ©— Bioethics Research Library Box Washington DC Heroes, Saints, and Ordinary Morality shifts the way we regard ourselves in relationship to those we admire from afar—it asks us not only to admire, but to emulate as well—further, it challenges us to actively seek the acquisition of virtue as seen in the lives of heroes and saints, to learn from them, a dynamic aspect of ethical behavior that goes beyond the mere avoidance.

Moral sainthood conflicts with our ordinary ideas about what sort of person it’s worth being. We tend to think that it’s better to be physically fit or a good cook or able to shotgun a beer in under 2 seconds, like we’re better, more well-rounded people for having some of those skills than not, even though they’re totally nonmoral skills.

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no. Heroes, saints & ordinary morality. [Andrew Michael Flescher] -- Traditional approaches to ethics have suggested there is a sharp distinction between ordinary people and those called heroes and saints; between duties and acts of supererogation (going beyond the. Heroes, Saints, and Ordinary Morality shifts the way we regard ourselves in relationship to those we admire from afar—it asks us not only to admire, but to emulate as well—further, it challenges us to actively seek the acquisition of virtue as seen in the lives of heroes and saints, to learn from them, a dynamic aspect of ethical behavior.

"With Heroes, Saints, & Ordinary Morality, Andrew Flescher joins the ranks of the very best virtue ethicists working today. Flescher offers here a stunning intellectual achievement, but even more importantly he prods the reader to reflect on moral complacency while providing clues for how to envision a better, more virtuous life."Brand: Core Faculty Andrew Michael Flescher.

In a book called Improvisation: The Drama of Christian Ethics, Samuel Wells he gives us a contrast of heroes and saints I want to share with you this he notes that the word “hero” is nowhere to be found in the New Testament, while saint appears sixty-four times.

The Bible calls on us to be saints not heroes. Andrew Michael Flescher is a member of the Core Faculty, Program in Public Health,associate professor of Preventive Medicine, and associate professor of English at Stony Brook University. He is the author of Heroes, Saints, and Ordinary Morality. James F.

Keenan, SJ, Series Editor. He is the author of two books: "Heroes, Saints, and Ordinary Morality" () and "The Altruistic Species: Scientific, Philosophical, and Religious Perspectives of Human Benevolence," co-author.CliffsNotes is the original (and most widely imitated) study guide.

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