Craft as a Place of Knowing in Natural Law

The article offers a proposal about natural law inquiry in terms of knowledge attendant in the practices of a craft. We begin by discussing Aristotle’s analogical use of crafts in considering knowledge of ethics and politics in the Nicomachean Ethics. We inquire further into craft as a way of knowin...

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Published in:Studies in Christian ethics
Authors: McCarthy, David Matzko 1962- (Author) ; Pinches, Charles Robert (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage [2016]
In: Studies in Christian ethics
RelBib Classification:NCA Ethics
TB Antiquity
TK Recent history
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B Moral Realism
B Iris Murdoch
B Craft
B MURDOCH, Iris, 1919-1999
B Natural Law
B Craftsmanship
B Thomas Aquinas
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Summary:The article offers a proposal about natural law inquiry in terms of knowledge attendant in the practices of a craft. We begin by discussing Aristotle’s analogical use of crafts in considering knowledge of ethics and politics in the Nicomachean Ethics. We inquire further into craft as a way of knowing by consulting the works of psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and sociologist Richard Sennett. The framework of a craft is connected to moral realism through an analysis of works by Iris Murdoch and Simone Weil. Finally we provide a proposal for natural law inquiry in relation to the embodied and embedded nature of craft.
ISSN:0953-9468
Contains:Enthalten in: Studies in Christian ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0953946815610022