This article claims that the Christian injunction to love your neighbor refers to a heuristic disposition of human conduct. This has already been shown by Christian situation ethics which points to the fact that moral behavior is founded in a response to situational cues. However, as situation ethics argues mainly against normative ethics, this article clarifies the Christian ethos in terms of recent theories of contextual social decision-making. It argues that the heuristics of the love of neighbor results neither in the enforcement nor the violation of social norms, but in the transgression of expectations of social conformity.

Enthalten in:
Zeitschrift für Evangelische Ethik; 2012/1 Kommentare, Studien, Berichte, Dokumentationen, Diskussionen, Rezensionen, Bibliographie (2012)

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Serie / Reihe: Zeitschrift für Evangelische Ethik

Personen: Klein, Rebekka A.

Schlagwörter: Liebe Theologie Norm Nächstenliebe Situationsethik Überschreitung