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Reading the Silences,Questioning the Terms: A Response to the Focus on Eighteenth‐Century Ethics
Author(s) -
Adams Robert Merrihew
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of religious ethics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.306
H-Index - 20
eISSN - 1467-9795
pISSN - 0384-9694
DOI - 10.1111/0384-9694.00047
Subject(s) - enlightenment , piety , focus (optics) , reading (process) , filial piety , epistemology , aesthetics , sociology , philosophy , religious studies , gender studies , linguistics , physics , optics
It is striking that most of the essays in this Focus do not explore the specifically religious aspects of Enlightenment ethical thought. A principled reason for this may be found in a conception of religion that makes it hard for Enlightenment thinkers to seem religious at all. Neither does this conception fit anything that is likely to be a live option for most people today, and the now prevalent unpopularity of eighteenth‐century piety and religious thought may blind us to important religious possibilities.