Die gewinnende Kraft des Guten: Ansatz einer evangelischen Ethik

The interplay of virtue, duty, and goodness plays a dominant role in the history of ethics. Following Schleiermacher, it can be shown that this is not a matter of opposites, but rather a pattern of three related aspects of fully worked out ethics. -- This essay attempts to show how such an integrate...

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Main Author: Härle, Wilfried (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:German
Published: 2004
In: Theologische Literaturzeitung
Year: 2004, Volume: 129, Issue: 2, Pages: 123-134
ISSN:0040-5671
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Author Notes:Wilfried Härle
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Summary:The interplay of virtue, duty, and goodness plays a dominant role in the history of ethics. Following Schleiermacher, it can be shown that this is not a matter of opposites, but rather a pattern of three related aspects of fully worked out ethics. -- This essay attempts to show how such an integrated ethics can be described and typified. The author proposes the idea of a "model ethics", and outlines the changes in language, normative function, and tasks that it implies. This essay also emphasizes the basic difference between a teleologically and a consecutively motivated ethos.
ISSN:0040-5671