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    Ethics in Light of Childhood.John Wall - 2010 - Georgetown University Press.
    Three enduring models -- What constitutes human being? -- What is the ethical aim? -- What is owed each other? -- Human rights in light of childhood -- The generative family -- The art of ethical thinking.
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    Moral creativity: Paul Ricoeur and the poetics of possibility.John Wall - 2005 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    In Moral Creativity, John Wall argues that moral life and thought are inherently and radically creative. Human beings are called by their own primordially created depths to exceed historical evil and tragedy through the ongoing creative transformation of their world. This thesis challenges ancient Greek and biblical separations of ethics and poetic image-making, as well as contemporary conceptions of moral life as grounded in abstract principles or preconstituted traditions. Taking as his point of departure the poetics of the will of (...)
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  3. Phronesis, poetics, and moral creativity.John Wall - 2003 - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 6 (3):317-341.
    At least since Aristotle, phronesis (practical wisdom) and poetics (making or creating) have been understood as essentially different activities, one moral the other (in itself) non-moral. Today, if anything, this distinction is sharpened by a Romantic association of poetics with inner subjective expression. Recent revivals of Aristotelian ethics sometimes allow for poetic dimensions of ethics, but these are still separated from practical wisdom per se. Through a fresh reading of phronesis in the French hermeneutical phenomenologist Paul Ricoeur, I argue that (...)
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    Empowered Inclusion : Theorizing Global Justice for Children and Youth.Jonathan Josefsson & John Wall - unknown
    This paper argues that contemporary child and youth experiences of globalization call for retheorizing global justice around a new concept of empowered inclusion. The first part of the paper examines three case studies in globalization – child labour movements, child and youth migration, and young people’s organization around climate change – and shows how, in each case, young people, through their struggles against injustice, are simultaneously disempowered and empowered by their deep global interdependency. The second part proposes new theoretical advances (...)
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  5. The Economy of the Gift: Paul Ricoeur's Significance for Theological Ethics.John Wall - 2001 - Journal of Religious Ethics 29 (2):235 - 260.
    Paul Ricoeur's understanding of the relations of faith, love, and hope suggests a unique approach to theological ethics, one that holds fresh promise for bringing together considerations of the good (teleology) and the right (deontology) around the notion of an "economy of the gift." The economy of the gift articulates Ricoeur's distinctively dialectical understanding of the relation of the human and the divine, and the resulting dialectical moral relation of the self and the other. Despite our fallen condition, Ricoeur suggests, (...)
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    Paul Ricoeur and contemporary moral thought.John Wall, William Schweiker & W. David Hall (eds.) - 2002 - New York: Routledge.
    Here, some of the most influential thinkers in theological and philosophical ethics develop new directions for research in contemporary moral thought. Taking as their starting point Ricoeur's recent work on moral anthropology, the contributors set a vital agenda for future conversations about ethics and just community.
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    2 All the world's a stage.John Wall - 2013 - In Emily Ryall, The philosophy of play. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. pp. 32.
    This essay examines play as an ontological dimension of human being. It asks in particular how children’s experiences of play offer critiques and expansions of traditional adult frames that have dominated philosophies of play in the West. This “childist” approach suggests that human playfulness is not reducible to irrationality, spontaneity, or use for work. Rather, as childhood studies combined with post-modern thinking suggests, human being involves play in its fundamental capacity for creating meaning.
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    Paul Ricoeur: Honoring and Continuing the Work.Lorenzo Altieri, Pamela Anderson, Patrick Bourgeois, Fred Dallmayr, Gregory Hoskins, Domenico Jervolino, Morny Joy, David M. Kaplan, Richard Kearney, Peter Kemp, Jason Springs, Henry Venema, John Wall & John Whitmire - 2011 - Lexington Books.
    This collection of essays is dedicated to the prolific career of Paul Ricoeur. Honoring his work, this anthology addresses questions and concerns that defined Ricoeur’s.
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    "Ain't I a Person?": Reimagining Human Rights in Response to Children.John Wall - 2010 - Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 30 (2):39-57.
    THE ETHICAL GROUNDS OF HUMAN RIGHTS FROM THE ENLIGHTENMENT TO today have been almost exclusively centered on the experiences of adults. This essay argues that human rights are not fully "human" unless their very bases are transformed in response to the third of humanity who are children. The essay is an exercise in what is broadly termed "childism": not just applying ethical norms to children but restructuring norms themselves in light of children's experiences. Human rights in particular should be reimagined (...)
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    Music, metamorphosis and capitalism: self, poetics and politics.John Wall (ed.) - 2007 - Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press.
    The essays in this volume look at various kinds of music from a number of perspectives, including the socio-political, the aesthetic and the psychological. The music under discussion here is diverse but fits loosely into the categories rock-pop, new music, rap, metal and music video, with the caveat that much of the music discussed here is historically layered and engages self-consciously in the deconstruction of music genres. If there is an interpretative theme that links these essays, it is that of (...)
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  11. Pluralism and Meaning: Paul Ricoeur and the Ethics of Interpretation.John Wall - 1999 - Dissertation, The University of Chicago
    This dissertation is a constructive interpretation of the significance of French philosopher Paul Ricoeur's work for ethical theory. It argues that Ricoeur provides a concept of moral meaning which addresses more adequately than major contemporary alternatives, particularly Hebermas, MacIntyre, and Levinas, the problem of moral pluralism. Specifically, moral meaning for Ricoeur is a dialectical term which mediates the teleological good and the deontological right of tradition-interpreting selves. It renders productive these two poles of moral life, one Aristotelian and the other (...)
     
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    Phronesis as Poetic.John Wall - 2005 - Review of Metaphysics 59 (2):313-331.
    In Book 6 of his NICOMACHEAN ETHICS, Aristotle distinguishes phronesis or “practical wisdom” from poiesis or “art,” “production.” Neither deals with the universals of pure science or theoretical wisdom but rather with “things which admit of being other than they are,” “the realm of coming-to-be.” But phronesis “is itself an end,” namely “acting well”, whereas poiesis “has an end other than itself”, namely a work of art or a product. Phronesis is realized insofar as it is practiced well in itself, (...)
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    The creative imperative: Religious ethics and the formation of life in common.John Wall - 2005 - Journal of Religious Ethics 33 (1):45-64.
    Challenging a long-standing assumption of the separation of ethical from poetic activity, this essay develops the basis for a theory of moral life as inherently and radically creative. A range of contemporary post-Kantian ethicists--including Ricoeur, Nussbaum, Kearney, and Gutiérrez--are employed to make the argument that moral practice requires a fundamental capability for creative transformation, imagination, and social renewal. In addition, this poetic moral capability can finally be understood only from the primordial religious point of view of the mystery of Creation (...)
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    The Equal-Regard Family and Its Friendly Critics: Don Browning and the Practical Theological Ethics of the Family; Conceiving Parenthood: American Protestantism and the Spirit of Reproduction.John Wall - 2009 - Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 29 (2):233-236.
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