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Chapter 9 - Summary and Conclusions

Epistemological or Ontological?

from Part II - How and Why Agape-Justice Conflicts Arise

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2023

Albino Barrera
Albino Barrera
Affiliation:
Providence College, Rhode Island
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Summary

Agape-justice conflicts are epistemological in nature because they arise from limitations in human knowledge. However, they may in fact be also ontological in nature as occasions to give vent to love’s diffusiveness, to develop the moral faculties of reason and freedom, to acquire personal and collective virtue, and to grow in Christified agape (caritas). Even epistemological limitations may, by divine design, also be meant to serve these purposes. Agape-justice conflicts are instrumental for humans’ eventual union with God, their telos. They are occasions for grace to build on our human frailties and brokenness, grace building on nature.

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agape-justice conflictmoral dilemmaepistemological natureontological naturedivine designteloscaritas
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Compassion-Justice Conflicts and Christian Ethics , pp. 265 - 276
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Summary and Conclusions
  • Albino Barrera, Providence College, Rhode Island
  • Book: Compassion-Justice Conflicts and Christian Ethics
  • Online publication: 19 October 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009384667.013
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  • Summary and Conclusions
  • Albino Barrera, Providence College, Rhode Island
  • Book: Compassion-Justice Conflicts and Christian Ethics
  • Online publication: 19 October 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009384667.013
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  • Summary and Conclusions
  • Albino Barrera, Providence College, Rhode Island
  • Book: Compassion-Justice Conflicts and Christian Ethics
  • Online publication: 19 October 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009384667.013
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