
Subordinated Ethics
Natural Law and Moral Miscellany in Aquinas and Dostoyevsky
Caitlin Smith Gilson(Author)
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published on 21. August 2020
398 pages
978-1-5326-8641-2 (ISBN)
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With Dostoyevsky's Idiot and Aquinas' Dumb Ox as guides, this book seeks to recover the elemental mystery of the natural law, a law revealed only in wonder. If ethics is to guide us along the way, it must recover its subordination; description must precede prescription. If ethics is to invite us along the way, it cannot lead, either as politburo, or even as public orthodoxy. It cannot be smugly symbolic but must be by way of signage, of directionality, of the open realization that ethical meaning is en route, pointing the way because it is within the way, as only sign, not symbol, can point to the sacramental terminus. The courtesies of dogma and tradition are the road signs and guideposts along the longior via, not themselves the termini. We seek the dialogic heart of the natural law through two seemingly contradictory voices and approaches: St. Thomas Aquinas and his famous five ways, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky's holy idiot, Prince Myshkin. It is precisely the apparent miscellany of these selected voices that provide us with a connatural invitation into the natural law as subordinated, as descriptive guide, not as prescriptive leader.
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Eugene
United States
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978-1-5326-8641-2 (9781532686412)
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Caitlin Smith Gilson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at University of Holy Cross, New Orleans. She is the author of four earlier books, most recently Immediacy and Meaning (2017).
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Quiet Homes: The Paradox of Freedom
- New Beginnings: The Place of the Subordinated Ethics
- Undiscovered Ends: Dostoyevsky and the Imaging of the Natural Law
- The Wear of Winning: God among the Miscellany: Saint Thomas's Five Ways
- Postscript: Laughter and the Love of Friends
- Appendix
- Bibliography
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