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How to Stand for Something: Toward a Genealogy of Exemplars
Author(s) -
Stout Jeffrey
Publication year - 2019
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/jore.12282
Subject(s) - maya , politics , focus (optics) , genealogy , epistemology , sociology , history , aesthetics , philosophy , law , political science , physics , optics
This paper responds to the focus issue on exemplarity that includes contributions by Kyle Lambelet, Brian Hamilton, and Gustavo Maya. The paper calls attention to ancient, medieval, and modern precedents that ought to inform our thinking about the ethical and political significance of exemplars.