Department of Religious Studies Publications Copyright (c) 2013 University of Iowa All rights reserved. http://ir.uiowa.edu/religion_pubs Recent documents in Department of Religious Studies Publications en-us Tue, 21 May 2013 17:30:45 PDT 3600 The nature of the beast: hatred in cross-traditional religious and philosophical perspective http://ir.uiowa.edu/religion_pubs/14 http://ir.uiowa.edu/religion_pubs/14 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 03:01:28 PDT Joel Gereboff et al. Medicine and the ethics of care / Diana Fritz Cates and Paul Lauritzen, editors http://ir.uiowa.edu/religion_pubs/13 http://ir.uiowa.edu/religion_pubs/13 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 03:01:27 PDT Diana Fritz Cates et al. Aquinas on the emotions : a religious-ethical inquiry / Diana Fritz Cates http://ir.uiowa.edu/religion_pubs/11 http://ir.uiowa.edu/religion_pubs/11 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 03:01:26 PDT Diana Fritz Cates Choosing to feel : virtue, friendship, and compassion for friends / Diana Fritz Cates http://ir.uiowa.edu/religion_pubs/12 http://ir.uiowa.edu/religion_pubs/12 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 03:01:26 PDT Diana Fritz Cates Ethics, literature, and the emotional dimension of moral understanding http://ir.uiowa.edu/religion_pubs/10 http://ir.uiowa.edu/religion_pubs/10 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 03:01:25 PDT Examines how three books demonstrate that reading literature can help persons achieve greater moral understanding. `Literature and Moral Understanding,' by Frank Palmer; `On Moral Personhood: Philosophy, Literature, Criticism, and Self-Understanding,' by Richard Eldridge; `Love's Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature,' by Martha Nussbaum.

]]> Diana Fritz Cates Experiential Narratives of Rape and Torture http://ir.uiowa.edu/religion_pubs/8 http://ir.uiowa.edu/religion_pubs/8 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 03:01:24 PDT Many Guatemalan women suffered extreme sexual violence during the latter half of the twentieth century. Learning of this violence can evoke hatred in persons who love and respect women—hatred for the men who perpetrated the violence and also for other men around the world who victimize women in this way. Hatred is a common response to a perceived evil, and it might in some cases be a fitting response, but it is important to subject one's emotions to critical moral reflection. A key task of ethics is to encourage persons to cultivate good habits of being moved. This essay analyzes the way in which two different texts manage, through the skillful presentation of experiential narratives, to help readers acknowledge the hatred they might feel, but also to think twice about the hatred to which they consent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]; Copyright of Journal of Religious Ethics is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

]]> Diana Fritz Cates Conceiving Emotions: Martha Nussbaum's Upheavals of Thought http://ir.uiowa.edu/religion_pubs/9 http://ir.uiowa.edu/religion_pubs/9 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 03:01:24 PDT In Upheavals of Thought, Martha Nussbaum offers a theory of the emotions. She argues that emotions are best conceived as thoughts, and she argues that emotion-thoughts can make valuable contributions to the moral life. She develops extensive accounts of compassion and erotic love as thoughts that are of great moral import. This paper seeks to elucidate what it means, for Nussbaum, to say that emotions are forms of thought. It raises critical questions about her conception of the structure of emotion, and about her conception of compassion, in particular. Finally, the paper seeks to show how analyzing the structure, as well as the moral value, of the emotions ultimately requires entering the realm of religious ethics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]; Copyright of Journal of Religious Ethics is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

]]> Diana Fritz Cates Commentary on genetic knowledge and self-understanding http://ir.uiowa.edu/religion_pubs/7 http://ir.uiowa.edu/religion_pubs/7 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 03:01:23 PDT Diana Fritz Cates Spending the Day with a Good Friend: Autobiography, Moral Character, and the Religious Imagination http://ir.uiowa.edu/religion_pubs/6 http://ir.uiowa.edu/religion_pubs/6 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 03:01:22 PDT Diana Fritz Cates Thomas Aquinas on Intimacy and Emotional Integrity http://ir.uiowa.edu/religion_pubs/5 http://ir.uiowa.edu/religion_pubs/5 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 03:01:21 PDT Diana Fritz Cates Wickedness http://ir.uiowa.edu/religion_pubs/4 http://ir.uiowa.edu/religion_pubs/4 Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:56:37 PDT Diana Cates Toward an Ethic of Shared Selfhood http://ir.uiowa.edu/religion_pubs/3 http://ir.uiowa.edu/religion_pubs/3 Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:56:37 PDT Diana Cates The Religious Dimension of Ordinary Human Emotions http://ir.uiowa.edu/religion_pubs/2 http://ir.uiowa.edu/religion_pubs/2 Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:56:36 PDT Diana Cates Aquinas, feminism, and the common good http://ir.uiowa.edu/religion_pubs/1 http://ir.uiowa.edu/religion_pubs/1 Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:56:35 PDT Diana Cates