PDF-(READ)-Truthfulness and Tragedy: Further Investigations in Christian Ethics

In Truthfulness and Tragedy Stanley Hauerwas provides an account of moral existence and ethical rationality that shows how Christian convictions operate or should operate to form and direct lives In attempting to conceptualize the basis of Christian ethics in a manner that will render Christian convictions morally intelligible the author casts fresh light on traditional theoretical issues and articulates the distinctive Christian response to contemporary concerns such as suicide medical ethics and child care The first section of the book deals with methodological issues the meaning and nature of practical reason obligation claims natural law and self deception and the affinity of story and ethics It focuses on the relation of truthfulness and tragedy and the need for a storya set of religious convictions or grammar of theologythat does justice to the tragic character of human existence The second section addresses substantive issues suicide euthanasia and the value of survival the moral limits of population growth the definition of person for medical reasons and social involvement and Christian ethics The overall theme is the need for a community in which truthfulness is a way of life In the final section devoted to the problem of how to care for retarded children the implications of the authors ethical position are given concrete expression He discusses the assumptions underlying the willingness to have children criteria for humanness medical ethics and how truthful communities deal with suffering In Truthfulness and Tragedy Stanley Hauerwas extends and clarifies the ethical position set forth in his earlier books Character and the Christian Life and Vision and Virtue He is associate professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame He was a senior fellow in Christian medical ethics at the Joseph and Rose Kennedy Institute for the Study of Reproduction and Bioethics and taught medical ethics at the University of Texas medical branch in Galveston. 3 1 Research ethics committee approval3 2 Grounds for objection 4 3 Labelling of medical devices STARTING POINT. Ethics is the practical application of belief. What constitutes appropriate conduct?. Morality refers to the decisions that an individual makes. RELATIONSHIP. Ethics are based on . relationship. What is a tragedy?. A tragedy is a drama which, according to Aristotle, depicts . the downfall . of . a. . basically . good person . through . some . fatal error . or . misjudgment (hamartia), . producing suffering and insight on the part of the protagonist and . “All men by nature desire knowledge.”- Aristotle. Tragedy. Tragedy - . Tragedy dealt with the big themes of love, loss, pride, the abuse of power and the fraught relationships between men and gods. Typically the main protagonist of a tragedy commits some terrible crime without realizing how foolish and arrogant he has been. Then, as he slowly realizes his error, the world crumbles around him. The three great playwrights of tragedy were Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. . What is a tragedy?. A tragedy is a drama which, according to Aristotle, depicts . the downfall of . a. . basically good person through . some fatal error or misjudgment, producing suffering and insight on the part of the protagonist and arousing pity and fear on the part of the audience. TO KNOW TRADITIONAL CHRISTIAN WAYS OF MAKING MORAL DECISION. S. To understand the social context of situation ethics. TO deduce from the evidence the basic underlying principles of situation ethics. What period do you think these pictures are from and why?. Duties and responsibilities for Supervising InvestigatorfollowingWork collaboratively with Assistant Attorney General AAG to plan direct and supervise highly complex and sensitive investigations using This is about allocation of scare resources and greed.. Individuals use an available resource (limited, but renewable) solely on the basis of individual need.. At first they get are rewarded for using it, but eventually get diminishing returns.. “. The medium . is. . the. . message. .“. Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) . The Medium is the Message. Narratives . come. in different . forms. . Greek. Tragedies (. theatre. . plays. ). Aristotle’s Poetics. Definition . Tragedy is . an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude; in language embellished with each kind of artistic ornament, the several kinds being found in separate parts of the play; in the form of action, not of narrative; through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of these emotions. . This web quiz may appear as two pages on tablets and laptops.. I recommend that you view it as one page by clicking on the open book icon at the bottom of the page.. Market Failures (continued). Aristotle (384 – 322 BCE). Greek philosopher born in Macedonia. Son of Nicomachus, physician to the king. Entered Plato’s Academy at age 18. c. 342 BCE began tutor to Alexander the Great. Founded the Lyceum. ‘As . practised. in Renaissance England and in classical Greece and Rome, . tragedy is an intense exploration of suffering and evil . focused on the experience of an . exceptional individual. , distinguished by rank or character or both. Typically, it presents a steep . Theories and approaches to Ethics. Ethics and Culture/Religion. Arguing Ethics. Threats to ethics and ethical problems in knowledge. Under the influence of ethics—. ’wrong’ . ethics, ethics in history..