Temperance and the Second-Person Perspective
The virtue of temperance with respect to food and drink is often assumed to be relatively straightforward, a matter of steering a mean between excess and deficiency. Given also that humans share the need to eat and drink with non-human animals, this topic might therefore seem promising to explore fo...
| Published in: | European journal for philosophy of religion |
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| Subtitles: | Special Issue - Evolutionary Research on Morality and Theological Ethics |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Innsbruck in cooperation with the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham
[2020]
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| In: |
European journal for philosophy of religion
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Animals
/ Food
/ Human being
/ Moderation
/ Moral act
/ Theological ethics
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism NCB Personal ethics NCC Social ethics VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Relational virtues
B Temperance B Second person |
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| Summary: | The virtue of temperance with respect to food and drink is often assumed to be relatively straightforward, a matter of steering a mean between excess and deficiency. Given also that humans share the need to eat and drink with non-human animals, this topic might therefore seem promising to explore for possible connections between evolutionary research on morality and theological ethics. In this paper, however, I argue that many aspects of temperance go far beyond the Aristotelian account and can be understood principally as reflecting the fact that human beings are embodied relational persons. This second-person account can indeed be connected to theological ethics, but it is also one that draws principally from the discontinuities of human and non-human behaviour. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: European journal for philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.24204/ejpr.v12i3.3408 |