“THE ARC OF THE MORAL UNIVERSE […] BENDS TOWARD JUSTICE”

2021 ◽  
pp. 145-154
Keyword(s):  
Moral Universe

scholarly journals The Reality of Moral Imperatives in Liberal Religion

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-335
Author(s):  
Howard Lesnick
Keyword(s):  
Ideal World ◽  
Liberal Religion ◽  
The World ◽  
Moral Universe ◽  
Child Subject ◽  
Good And Evil ◽  
The Ideal

God has made man with the instinctive love of justice in him,which gradually gets developed in the world …. I do not pretendto understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eyereaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and completethe figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience.And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.Theodore Parker (1853)A strange mystery it is that Nature, omnipotent but blind, in therevolutions of her … hurryings through the abysses of space, hasbrought forth at last a child, subject still to her power, but giftedwith sight, with knowledge of good and evil, with the capacity ofjudging all the works of his unthinking mother. [Gradually, asmorality grows bolder, the claim of the ideal world begins to befelt, [giving rise to the claim] that, in some hidden manner, theworld of fact is really harmonious with the world of ideals. Thusman creates God, all-powerful and all-good, the mystic unity ofwhat is and what should be.

Keeping the Faith: Divine Protection and Flood Prevention in Modern Buddhist Ladakh

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Butcher
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Himalayan Region ◽  
Flash Flooding ◽  
Flood Prevention ◽  
Proper Order ◽  
Religious Engagement ◽  
Moral Universe ◽  
Human World ◽  
Northwest India

In August 2010 the Himalayan Region of Ladakh, Northwest India, experienced severe flash-flooding and mudslides, causing widespread death and destruction. The causes cited were climate change, karmic retribution, and the wrath of an agentive sentient landscape. Ladakhis construct, order and maintain the physical and moral universe through religious engagement with this landscape. The Buddhist monastic incumbents—the traditional mediators between the human world and the sentient landscape—explain supernatural retribution as the result of karmic demerit that requires ritual intervention. Social, economic, and material transformations have distorted the proper order, generating a physically and morally unfamiliar landscape. As a result, the mountain deities that act as guardians and protectors of the land below are confused and angry, sending destructive water to show their displeasure. Thus, the locally-contextualized response demonstrates the agency of the mountain gods in establishing a moral universe whereby water can give life and destroy it.

Eulogies for the Resistance

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 272-292
Author(s):  
Jack Joy
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
State Of Exception ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Affective States ◽  
Mimetic Desire ◽  
Syrian Civil War ◽  
Moral Universe

Recent studies into the notion of crisis argue that affective states of insecurity can offer an instrumental utility to elites seeking to sustain existing power relations. Through their discursive construction, such imaginative landscapes help legitimize previously illegitimate forms of political action, rationalize heightened forms of collective sacrifice and instill new disciplinary technologies among political subjects. Building on this growing body of scholarly work, in this study I use critical discourse analysis (CDA) to address Hizbullah’s mobilization of a specific ‘crisis imaginary’ as part of its efforts to legitimize its ongoing involvement in the Syrian civil war. This perceptual regime works to uphold a ‘state of exception’ for Hizbullah, sustain the practice of martyrdom as a form of Girardian ‘mimetic desire’ and structure a wider moral universe that continues to bind the party’s audience to the resistance society while maintaining their continued docility.

scholarly journals <i>La Commedia Scientifica</i> – Dante and the scientific virtues

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-145
Author(s):  
Anthea R. Lacchia ◽  
Stephen Webster
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Scientific Misconduct ◽  
Code Of Conduct ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Narrative Device ◽  
Contemporary Science ◽  
The Divine Comedy ◽  
Moral Universe

Abstract. The ethical challenges facing contemporary science range from scientific misconduct to the rightful treatment of people, animals and the environment. In this work, we explore the role of virtue ethics, which concern the character of a person, in contemporary science. Through interviews with 13 scientists, eight of whom are geoscientists, we identify six virtues in science (honesty, humility, philia, innocence, generosity and reticence), paired with vices, and construct a narrative argument around them. Specifically, we employ the narrative structure of the late medieval poem The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri, and draw on its moral universe to explore the scientific virtues. Using this narrative device, we make the case for virtue ethics being a reliable guide for all matters scientific. As such, this work lays out a modern code of conduct for science.

Book Reviews : This Moral Universe

1998 ◽  
Vol 109 (5) ◽  
pp. 156-157
Author(s):  
Richard G. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Moral Universe

Friendship Online

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dean Cocking
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
Social Revolution ◽  
Value Sensitive Design ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Social Lives ◽  
Online Friendship ◽  
Moral Universe ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Social Dependence

The online social revolution has seen the pursuit of friendship online become core business of the internet and part of the friendships and social lives of most of us. This chapter provides an overview of the burgeoning contemporary research concerning online friendship and of the main themes, since Aristotle, on the nature and value of friendship. It also aims to provide some substantial fresh research for future analyses. It argues that the pursuit of friendship relies heavily upon the rich, face-to-face dynamic of plural modes of self-expression and communication that we have engaged in for thousands of years. Our social media platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, flatline much of this territory, and as a result much of the moral universe that we have built upon it is lost or distorted online. The chapter concludes by suggesting that we need to better understand this social dependence of our values and valuing, both to improve the value-sensitive design of life online, and, where this social dependence cannot be well captured, to also improve our engagement in our traditional worlds and so help get us offline.

scholarly journals The Differend of Justice: Violence and Redemption in Dworkin's Justice for Hedgehogs

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-173
Author(s):  
CHARLES OLNEY
Keyword(s):  
Legal Order ◽  
Moral Justification ◽  
Moral Universe ◽  
Definitive Statement

AbstractThis article uses Ronald Dworkin's argument for the unity of value to explore the redemptive core of modern legal order. Dworkin establishes a formal unity: all legal claims reside within a linked framework of moral justification. However, Jean-Francois Lyotard's concept of the differend exposes a lingering gap. Arguments within a moral universe do inevitably converge, but such unity is only possible due to the formative violence enacted by such orders. Dworkin hopes to provide the definitive statement against moral subjectivity, but in its purest form, he proves precisely the opposite. The lesson to draw from Dworkin's work is that ‘justice’ is ultimately only the means by which political orders categorize and thereby sustain their own formative acts of exclusion under the guise of offering their redemption.

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