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Where Have All the Proportionalists Gone?
Author(s) -
Kalbian Aline H.
Publication year - 2002
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 - 10.1111/1467-9795.00096
Subject(s) - casuistry , virtue ethics , ethical theories , virtue , context (archaeology) , action (physics) , epistemology , environmental ethics , general interest , philosophy , normative ethics , sociology , contemporary philosophy , history , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics
Interest in proportionalism as an important trend in Catholic moral theology seems to have faded in the recent decade. This has led some to view it as a movement that was somehow defeated. I suggest that proportionalism’s influence can still be seen in contemporary Catholic ethics, most noticeably in the current interest in virtue ethics, casuistry, and feminist ethics. I argue that proportionalism encouraged a reappraisal of the methodology for evaluating moral action in a direction that was more hospitable to concerns about the particularity and context of the agent.