Generosity of spirit and moral criticism: how the 'one who loves' overcomes self-righteousness

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<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216275%3A25210%2F25%3A39923882" target="_blank" >RIV/00216275:25210/25:39923882 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/kierkegaards-works-of-love/generosity-of-spirit-and-moral-criticism/7FF4DAE8EFE722ED852AB6E78549328E" target="_blank" >https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/kierkegaards-works-of-love/generosity-of-spirit-and-moral-criticism/7FF4DAE8EFE722ED852AB6E78549328E</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781009416504" target="_blank" >10.1017/9781009416504</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Generosity of spirit and moral criticism: how the 'one who loves' overcomes self-righteousness
Original language description
This chapter focuses on the Works of Love deliberation “Love Hides a Multitude of Sins” (and, where relevant, Kierkegaard’s 1843 discourses on that topic), exploring the figure of the “one who loves” [den Kjerlige]. Drawing on the deliberation’s discussion of silence, mitigation explanations and forgiveness, and some arguments from my book Love’s Forgiveness about love’s way of seeing ambiguous evidence, I sketch the contours of a virtue manifested in den Kjerlige: generosity of spirit. I then ask: If we took seriously Kierkegaard’s portrait of den Kjerlige, what are the implications for contemporary moral and social discourse? How would such a person engage in moral criticism or social critique? What does this suggest about the controversial category of “microaggressions?” Through a consideration of “Love Hides” (section 1), some recent work on the ethics of “social punishment,” especially online public shaming (section 2), and contemporary debates about microaggressions (section 3), this exercise in “applied Kierkegaard” will argue that Kierkegaard’s deliberation offers an important counterweight to hyper-suspicion, judgementalism and self-righteousness in a polarized world.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
<a href="/en/project/LL2308" target="_blank" >LL2308: Combatting self-righteousness - a vice of the digital age</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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