White Privilege and the Erroneous Conscience: Rethinking Moral Culpability and Ignorance

This paper considers the problems that unconscious racial bias and social sin more broadly pose for moral theology's concepts of the erroneous conscience and ignorance. It argues that systemic racism prompts us to reimagine the erroneous conscience and individual culpability for ignorance. I ar...

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Main Author: Block, Elizabeth Sweeny (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Philosophy Documentation Center [2019]
In: Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
Year: 2019, Volume: 39, Issue: 2, Pages: 357-374
RelBib Classification:AE Psychology of religion
KDB Roman Catholic Church
NBE Anthropology
NCC Social ethics
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