25 found
Order:
Disambiguations
Aaron Stalnaker [24]Aaron D. Stalnaker [1]
  1.  21
    Mastery, Dependence, and the Ethics of Authority.Aaron Stalnaker - 2019 - New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
    Over the last few decades, skepticism about political and moral experts has grown into a serious social problem, undermining the functioning of liberal democratic regimes. Indeed, meritocracy-that is, government by hard working, public-spirited people with high levels of relevant expertise-has never looked so promising as an alternative to the dangers of know-nothing populism. One cultural tradition has devoted sustained attention to the idea of meritocracy, as well as to the cultivation of true expertise or mastery: Confucianism. Mastery, Dependence, and the (...)
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   4 citations  
  2.  38
    On Comparative Religious Ethics as a Field of Study.Elizabeth M. Bucar & Aaron Stalnaker - 2014 - Journal of Religious Ethics 42 (2):358-384.
    This essay is a critical engagement with recent assessments of comparative religious ethics by John Kelsay and Jung Lee. Contra Kelsay's proposal to return to a neo-Weberian sociology of religious norm elaboration and justification, the authors argue that comparative religious ethics is and should be practiced as a field of study in active conversation with other fields that consider human flourishing, employing a variety of methods that have their roots in multiple disciplines. Cross-pollination from a variety of disciplines is a (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   11 citations  
  3.  71
    Confucianism, Democracy, and the Virtue of Deference.Aaron Stalnaker - 2013 - Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 12 (4):441-459.
    Some democratic theorists have argued that contemporary people should practice only a civility that recognizes others as equal persons, and eschew any form of deference to authority as a feudalistic cultural holdover that ought to be abandoned in the modern era. Against such views, this essay engages early Confucian views of ethics and society, including their analyses of different sorts of authority and status, in order to argue that, properly understood, deference is indeed a virtue of considerable importance for contemporary (...)
    Direct download (4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   12 citations  
  4. Virtue as mastery in early confucianism.Aaron Stalnaker - 2010 - Journal of Religious Ethics 38 (3):404-428.
    This essay explores the interrelation of skills and virtues. I first trace one line of analysis from Aristotle to Alasdair MacIntyre, which argues that there is a categorical difference between skills and virtues, in their ends and intrinsic character. This familiar distinction is fine in certain respects but still importantly misleading. Virtue in general, and also some particular virtues such as ritual propriety and practical wisdom, are not just exercised in practical contexts, but are in fact partially constituted by the (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   15 citations  
  5.  32
    Anthropos and Ethics: Categories of Inquiry and Procedures of Comparison.Thomas A. Lewis, Jonathan Wyn Schofer, Aaron Stalnaker & Mark A. Berkson - 2005 - Journal of Religious Ethics 33 (2):177 - 185.
    Building on influential work in virtue ethics, this collection of essays examines the categories of self, person, and anthropology as foci for comparative analysis. The papers unite reflections on theory and method with descriptive work that addresses thinkers from the modern West, Christian and Jewish Late Antiquity, early China, and other settings. The introduction sets out central methodological issues that are subsequently taken up in each essay, including the origin of the categories through which comparison proceeds, the status of these (...)
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   15 citations  
  6.  59
    Anthropos and ethics categories of inquiry and procedures of comparison.Thomas A. Lewis, Jonathan Wyn Schofer, Aaron Stalnaker & Mark A. Berkson - 2005 - Journal of Religious Ethics 33 (2):177-185.
    Building on influential work in virtue ethics, this collection of essays examines the categories of self, person, and anthropology as foci for comparative analysis. The papers unite reflections on theory and method with descriptive work that addresses thinkers from the modern West, Christian and Jewish Late Antiquity, early China, and other settings. The introduction sets out central methodological issues that are subsequently taken up in each essay, including the origin of the categories through which comparison proceeds, the status of these (...)
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   14 citations  
  7.  73
    Comparative religious ethics and the problem of “human nature”.Aaron Stalnaker - 2005 - Journal of Religious Ethics 33 (2):187-224.
    Comparative religious ethics is a complicated scholarly endeavor, striving to harmonize intellectual goals that are frequently conceived as quite different, or even intrinsically opposed. Against commonly voiced suspicions of comparative work, this essay argues that descriptive, comparative, and normative interests may support rather than conflict with each other, depending on the comparison in question, and how it is pursued. On the basis of a brief comparison of the early Christian Augustine of Hippo and the early Confucians Mencius and Xunzi on (...)
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   12 citations  
  8.  54
    Judging others: History, ethics, and the purposes of comparison.Aaron Stalnaker - 2008 - Journal of Religious Ethics 36 (3):425-444.
    The most interesting and perilous issue at present in comparative religious ethics is comparative ethical judgment—when and how to judge others, if at all. There are understandable historical and conceptual reasons for the current tendency to prefer descriptive over normative work in comparative religious ethics. However, judging those we study is inescapable—it can be suppressed or marginalized but not eliminated. Therefore, the real question is how to judge others (and ourselves) well, not whether to judge. Instead of bringing supposedly universal (...)
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   10 citations  
  9.  35
    Xunzi's moral analysis of war and some of its contemporary implications.Aaron Stalnaker - 2012 - Journal of Military Ethics 11 (2):97-113.
    Abstract The early Ru or ?Confucian? figure Xunzi (?Master Xun,? c. 310?c. 220 BCE) gives a sophisticated analysis of war, which he develops on the basis of a larger social and political vision that he works out in considerable detail. This larger vision of human society is thoroughly normative in the sense that Xunzi both argues for the value of his ideal conception of society, and relates these moral arguments for the Confucian Dao or Way to what I take to (...)
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   5 citations  
  10.  31
    In Defense of Ritual Propriety.Aaron Stalnaker - 2016 - European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 8 (1):117--141.
    Confucians think ritual propriety is extremely important, but this commitment perplexes many Western readers. This essay outlines the early Confucian Xúnzǐ’s defense of ritual, then offers a modified defense of ritual propriety as a real virtue, of value to human beings in all times and places, albeit one that is inescapably indexed to prevailing social norms in a non-objectionable way. The paper addresses five likely objections to this thesis, drawing on but going beyond recent Kantian defenses of courtesy and civility. (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   3 citations  
  11.  81
    COVID‐19 and Religious Ethics.Toni Alimi, Elizabeth L. Antus, Alda Balthrop-Lewis, James F. Childress, Shannon Dunn, Ronald M. Green, Eric Gregory, Jennifer A. Herdt, Willis Jenkins, M. Cathleen Kaveny, Vincent W. Lloyd, Ping-Cheung Lo, Jonathan Malesic, David Newheiser, Irene Oh & Aaron Stalnaker - 2020 - Journal of Religious Ethics 48 (3):349-387.
    The editors of the JRE solicited short essays on the COVID‐19 pandemic from a group of scholars of religious ethics that reflected on how the field might help them make sense of the complex religious, cultural, ethical, and political implications of the pandemic, and on how the pandemic might shape the future of religious ethics.
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  12. Aspects of Xunzi's engagement with early daoism.Aaron Stalnaker - 2003 - Philosophy East and West 53 (1):87-129.
    : Xunzi borrows several significant ideas originating in the Zhuangzi and the ''Neiye'' chapter of the Guanzi, adapting them to solve problems in his own theories of mind and self-cultivation. This reworking occurs in three main areas. First, he uses some of the psycho-physical terminology of the ''Neiye'' but alters its cosmological background and thus its implications for selfcultivation. Second, largely for rhetorical effect he adopts the language of shen and shenming from both texts, but uses them to argue for (...)
    Direct download (8 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   4 citations  
  13. Overcoming Our Evil: Spiritual Exercises and Personhood in Xunzi and Augustine.Aaron D. Stalnaker - 2001 - Dissertation, Brown University
    This dissertation compares the thought and practice of Xunzi, a 4th--3rd century BCE Confucian, with that of Augustine of Hippo, a 4th--5th century CE Christian. Specifically, it compares their versions of the view that human nature is significantly bad or evil, and their prescriptions for the cultivation of ethically and religiously preferable modes of life, through the practice of what Pierre Hadot has called "spiritual exercises." ;Xunzi and Augustine deploy conceptual apparatuses structured by distinctive terms of art, responding to debates (...)
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  14.  17
    Religious Ethics and its Publics.Aaron Stalnaker - 2023 - Journal of Religious Ethics 51 (3):446-457.
    Past discussions of the public role of religious ethics scholarship have tended to focus on the propriety of religious argumentation in the public square. Rather than critiquing or vindicating such public engagement by explicitly religious thinkers, this essay recommends broader public engagement by scholars of comparatively oriented religious ethics, exploring why this goal is worthwhile, some possible objections, and various models of how it might be accomplished.
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  15. Comparative Religious Ethics.Aaron Stalnaker - 2013 - In Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics. Hoboken, NJ: Blackwell.
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  16.  31
    Subject: Peng Yin, “Virtue and Hierarchy in Early Confucian Ethics” Journal of Religious Ethics 49.4 (December 2021).Aaron Stalnaker - 2022 - Journal of Religious Ethics 50 (3):568-569.
  17. Augustine and World Religions.Michael Barnes, Francis X. Clooney, Olivier Dufault, Paula Fredriksen, Franklin T. Harkins, Paul J. Lachance, Leo Lefebure, Reid Locklin, C. C. Pecknold & Aaron Stalnaker - 2008 - Lexington Books.
    Despite Augustine's reputation as the father of Christian intolerance, one finds in his thought the surprising claim that within non-Christian writings there are 'some truths in regard even to the worship of the One God.' The essays here uncover provocative points of comparison and similarity between Christianity and other religions to further such an Augustinian dialogue.
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  18.  13
    Religious ethics in a time of globalism: shaping a third wave of comparative analysis.Elizabeth M. Bucar & Aaron Stalnaker (eds.) - 2012 - New York, NY: Palgrave-Macmillan.
    This selection of new approaches to the comparative study of religious ethics provides an accessible introduction to the most current research in the field. The essays in this book show that a variety of approaches to religious ethics are worth pursuing in our contemporary, profusely interconnected world. They also demonstrate that many sorts of analysis are shaped by comparison and comparative interests, even when they focus on a single topic or question, as long as they are informed by analogous studies (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  19.  28
    Kline, T. C. III, and Justin Tiwald, eds., Ritual and Religion in the Xunzi: Albany: State University of New York Press, 2014, viii + 197 pages.Aaron Stalnaker - 2015 - Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 14 (4):615-619.
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  20.  18
    Relations and Practices of Virtue: Replies to Commentators.Aaron Stalnaker - 2021 - Philosophy East and West 71 (2):525-536.
    I would like to thank the commentators for the care and sympathy evident in their excellent responses to my book.1 They delve deeply into numerous critical issues. It is truly satisfying to labor greatly and then experience such thoughtful attention directed toward one's work. Given that some parallel issues were raised by different people, in what follows I organize my responses around key themes in order to address most of the issues raised with minimal repetition.It is worth noting at the (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  21. Roles and virtues : early Confucians on social order and the different aspects of ethics.Aaron Stalnaker - 2019 - In Tim Dare & Christine Swanton (eds.), Perspectives in Role Ethics: Virtues, Reasons, and Obligation. New York: Routledge.
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  22.  16
    Rational Justification in Xunzi: On His Use of the Term Li.Aaron Stalnaker - 2004 - International Philosophical Quarterly 44 (1):53-68.
    Thinkers justify their views in a variety of ways. Operating in an alien intellectual milieu, the early Confucian Xunzi provides an intriguing counterpoint to familiar contemporary options for such reasoned support. This essay examines an idea thatis crucial to Xunzi’s justification of his larger philosophical vision, and which has been the object of incompatible and misleading interpretations. This key term of art is li, meaning “order” or “pattern,” which some scholars have translated as “principle,” and others more recently as “reason” (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  23.  11
    Spiritual Exercises and the Grace of God.Aaron Stalnaker - 2004 - Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 24 (2):137-170.
    AUGUSTINE'S MATURE, ANTI-PELAGIAN UNDERSTANDING OF HUMAN AND divine willing might appear to conflict with his advocacy of human striving to "make progress in righteousness" through various practices of personal reformation. In this essay I consider exercises such as reading and listening to scripture, fasting, and Eucharistie worship; I argue that although deep tensions exist in Augustine's account, ultimately they are not contradictions. Furthermore, recent attempts to retrieve "spiritual exercises" or askesis for contemporary ethical reflection would do well to grapple with (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  24.  13
    The Innocuous Legacy of Christian Ethics in Comparative Religious Ethics.Aaron Stalnaker - 2019 - Journal of Religious Ethics 47 (4):778-780.
    I argue that even if the influence of Christian ethics on comparative religious ethics (CRE) is inevitable, it need not be problematic. The legacy would only be worrisome if it stacked the deck in favor of Christian ethics or predisposed comparative ethicists to conform to the methods or thematic concerns of Christian ethics. Following Gadamer, I suggest that the ideal of presuppositionless objectivity is an illusion that applies to not only those who emerge from a Christian cultural context but in (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  25.  30
    The Mencius-Xunzi Debate in Early Confucian Ethics.Aaron Stalnaker - 2008 - In Jeffrey L. Richey (ed.), Teaching Confucianism. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 85.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark