The ambiguity of moral excellence: A response to Aaron Stalnaker's “virtue as mastery”
Journal of Religious Ethics 38 (3):429-435 (2010)
| Abstract | This response draws on Saba Mahmood's work on Muslim subjectivities in order to consider how Stalnaker's conceptualization of virtue might be applied to non-Confucian sources. I argue that when applied cross-culturally, Stalnaker's revised definition of “skillful virtue” raises normative and metaethical questions about what counts as a skill versus a mere bodily practice, the process by how skill is acquired, and how we can both allow for the ambiguity of skills and continue to make constructive arguments about them | |||||||||
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