Alterity, Intimacy, and the Cultural Turn in Religious Ethics: A Response to Four Critics. Issue 1 (19th February 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Miller, Richard B.
• Is Part Of: Journal of religious ethics. Volume 47:Issue 1(2019)
• Page Start: 203
• Page End: 216
• Publication Date: 2019-02-19
• Subjects: Friends and Other Strangers -- intimacy -- alterity -- culture -- acknowledgment -- respect -- solidarity -- public reason -- empathy -- ethics -- indignation -- responsibility -- separateness -- difference -- Augustine -- metaethics -- memory -- Bernard Williams -- John Rawls -- Judith Butler -- the liberal arts -- virtue -- social criticism -- moral psychology -- love -- religious studies -- democracy -- imaginative criticism; Ethics -- Periodicals; Religious ethics -- Periodicals; Morale religieuse; Religion; Théologie; 205
• DOI: 10.1111/jore.12255
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0384-9694

Abstract

Abstract: This essay responds to four critics of Friends and Other Strangers: Studies in Religion, Ethics and Culture : Diana Fritz Cates, Eric Gregory, Ross Moret, and Atalia Omer. Focusing on the book's organizing concepts of intimacy and alterity, engagement with empirical sources, discussion of Augustine's thought, and attention to moral psychology and political morality, these interlocutors take up various strands in the book's argument and extend them into metaethical, normative, and metadisciplinary domains. The author organizes his response under three rubrics: Metaethics and Personal Relationships; Political Morality; and Multidisciplinary Horizons.