Ethics of responsibility in a theological perspective

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dc.contributor.authorHuber, Wolfgangen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-28T13:13:51Zen_ZA
dc.date.available2022-03-28T13:13:51Zen_ZA
dc.date.issued2020en_ZA
dc.descriptionCITATION: Huber, Wolfgang. 2020. Ethics of responsibility in a theological perspective. Stellenbosch Theological Journal, 6(1):185-206, doi:10.17570/stj.2020.v6n1.a11.en_ZA
dc.descriptionThe original publication is available at: http://www.scielo.org.zaen_ZA
dc.description.abstractENGLISH ABSTRACT: In the article the author explicates his own view of a theological ethics of responsibility in dialogue with other proponents of such an ethics. A distinction is first made between an “ethic or responsibility” and an “ethics of responsibility”. Attention is then given to the emergence of the key term of “responsibility” in Western culture and its theological origin pointed out. It is argued that responsibility as an ethical concept implies the accountability of human persons for their deeds before an ultimate instance of accountability and thus with inner necessity depends on an affirmative understanding of autonomy and self-determination. What is, however, also implied is dependence on human interaction and communication. From this follows the conclusion that the ethics of responsibility is based on a relational rather than an essentialist anthropology. This conclusion is confirmed in an extensive discussion of the views of the two most important representatives of a theological approach to the ethics of responsibility, namely Dietrich Bonhoeffer and H. Richard Niebuhr. In the last part of the article it is argued that what distinguishes theological ethics of responsibility is that contrary to a purely future-oriented ethics – as is the case with, for example, the ethics of responsibility of Max Weber and Hans Jonas – it is an ethics that intertwines the three modi of time: past, present and future.en_ZA
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dc.format.extent22 pagesen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationHuber, Wolfgang. 2020. Ethics of responsibility in a theological perspective. Stellenbosch Theological Journal, 6(1):185-206, doi:10.17570/stj.2020.v6n1.a11en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn2413-9467 (online)en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn2413-9459 (print)en_ZA
dc.identifier.otherdoi:10.17570/stj.2020.v6n1.a11en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/124375en_ZA
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherPieter de Waal Neethling Trusten_ZA
dc.rights.holderAuthor retains copyrighten_ZA
dc.subjectEthicsen_ZA
dc.subjectResponsibility -- Religious aspectsen_ZA
dc.subjectReligion and ethicsen_ZA
dc.subjectNiebuhr, H. Richarden_ZA
dc.subjectResponsibility in the Bibleen_ZA
dc.subjectEthics in the Bibleen_ZA
dc.subjectBonhoeffer, Dietrichen_ZA
dc.subjectJonas, Hansen_ZA
dc.subjectResponsibility -- Ethicsen_ZA
dc.titleEthics of responsibility in a theological perspectiveen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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