Moral Creativity - Paul Ricoeur and the Poetics of Possibility

Zusatztext A provocative primer rich and thoughtful in current phenomenological conversations related to major questions debated today. Informationen zum Autor John Wall is Assistant Professor of Religion at Rutgers University. He is author of numerous articles in religious ethics and co-editor of Paul Ricoeur and Contemporary Moral Thought (2002). Klappentext John Wall argues that moral life is inherently creative. Creativity, he says, is an element not just in the expression of moral sentiments, the application of moral principles, or the formation of moral cultures, but also the very activity of living morally itself. He supports his argument by means of an examination and critique of the moral thought of the French hermeneutical phenomenologist Paul Ricoeur, especially his poetics of will. Wall replaces Ricoeur's work in the larger context of historical and contemporary conversations about moral transformation. In the process, he draws new connections between sin and tragedy, ethics and poetics, and the moral life and religious mythology. If moral life is creative at its core, Wall argues, it challenges all of these inherited oppositions and demands some fundamental rethinking of the nature and meaning of moral life itself. Zusammenfassung Argues that moral life is inherently creative. Creativity, this book says, is an element not just in the expression of moral sentiments, the application of moral principles, or the formation of moral cultures, but also the very activity of living morally itself.

Product details

• Authors: John Wall, John (Assistant Professor of Religion Wall, Wall John
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2005
• EAN: 9780195182569
• ISBN: 978-0-19-518256-9
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion; AAR Reflection and Theory in t; AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion; AAR Reflection and Theory in t
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -