Storia della crescita etica
This is the Italian translation of an unpublished paper by Charles Taylor. Its topic is human moral growth. We often live in a ental/emotional space which is narrowly centered on us. But we are also aware that we inhabit an ethical space, in which other people and higher goals also matter; in which...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Italian |
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2022
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Annali di studi religiosi
Year: 2022, Volume: 23, Pages: 21-36 |
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| Summary: | This is the Italian translation of an unpublished paper by Charles Taylor. Its topic is human moral growth. We often live in a ental/emotional space which is narrowly centered on us. But we are also aware that we inhabit an ethical space, in which other people and higher goals also matter; in which we recognize claims on us by others, and modes of human fulfilment that are fuller, and more essential parts of our nature. These two spaces, the narrower and the wider are in tension, but we can occasionally leap beyond this, and feel the full inspiration of and force of this wider call to live in a much bigger space. This is where the insight that human history is the site of a slow growth in ethical vision becomes relevant. But the process of realizing this goal is not smooth and continuous. It has a dialectical form, but not in the Hegelian sense where each move resolves a tension and thereby creates a new one. In fact, things are more messy and chaotic than this. For in the drive to ethical ascent in human history attempted steps forward can generate other evils and these evils can in turn call forth remedies. But if we are converging on a common ethic, must it follow that we are heading for a single universal spirituality/religion? Obviously not. Each spirituality offers paths of transformation - through liturgy, prayer, meditation, disciplines - without which our ethic will be forever a dead letter. |
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| ISSN: | 2284-3892 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Annali di studi religiosi
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.14598/Annali_studi_relig_23202203 |