Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

5-4-2017

Publication Title

Philosophy, Theology and the Jesuit Tradition: "The Eye of Love"

Pages

139-158

Publisher Name

Bloomsbury: T&T Clark

Publisher Location

New York: NY

Abstract

Apart from an orientation to and interest in the discernment of spirits as laid out in St Ignatius’s Spiritual Exercises, there does not exist a Jesuit epistemology as such. Compared to the numbers of Jesuit systematic theologians, scripture scholars, metaphysicians, and ethicists, there have been few Jesuit epistemologists.2 In metaphysics, Jesuits have been Thomist or Suarezian, even Platonist. In ethics, they have ranged from proportionalist through deontologist to virtue ethicist. No similar distinctive Jesuit presence is to be found in epistemology....

Identifier

978-0567672773

Comments

Author Posting. © The Editors 2017. This chapter is posted here by permission of Bloomsbury for personal use, not for redistribution. The chapter was published in Philosophy, Theology and the Jesuit Tradition: "The Eye of Love", 2017, https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/philosophy-theology-and-the-jesuit-tradition-9780567672780/

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