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32 Emmanuel Levinas, 33 For a helpful discussion, see Mary Midgley, 34 Donna J. HarA. Cohen (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003).Morality (New York: Routledge, 1994).away, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of NatureHumanism of the OtherEthical Primate: Humans, Freedom and , trans. N. Poller, intro. Richard (New

35 Todorov, 36 See Pierre Hadot, York: Routledge, 1991) and Bill McKibben, FoucaultAnchor, 1990)., ed. Arnold Davidson, trans. Michael Chase (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995); Imperfect GardenPhilosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to , p. 137. The End of Nature (New York:

37 Alasdair MacIntrye has been the most insistent on the idea of the school among also Werner Jaeger, Marquette University Press, 1943).virtue theorists. See his Tradition (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1990). For a Christian Humanism and TheologyThree Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopedia, Genealogy, , The Aquinas Lecture 7 (Milwaukee:

38 Florence M. Weinberg, 39 John Dewey, version, see Stanley Hauerwas, Christian Social Ethic(Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1972).Democracy and Education (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1981).The Wine and the Will: Rabelais’s Bacchic ChristianityA Community of Character: Toward a Constructive (New York: Free, 1944), p. 2.

40 Søren Kierkegaard, 41 For examples, see Michel Foucault, of the SelfPrinceton University Press, 1944), p. 201.trans. Alan Sheridan (New York: Knopf, 1995); his , vol. 3, trans. Robert Hurley (New York: Knopf, 1988); and also Richard Training in ChristianityDiscipline and Punish: The Birth of the Clinic, trans. Walter Lowrie (Princeton, NJ: History of Sexuality: The Care ,

42 Midgley, 43 Of course, given the fallibility and folly of all things human, it is not possible to Wolin, “Foucault the Neohumanist?” in 53(2006) no. 2: B12.give an unquestionable “proof ” for the necessity of a theological stance in ethics. The Ethical Primate, p. 168. The Chronicle of Higher Education^

44 See William Schweiker, 45 On this see David Tracy, “Literary Theory and the Return of the Forms of All we can do is to attempt to show dialectically how this position answers a range of shared problems more adequately than other ethical outlooks.Postmodern Age (Cleveland: Pilgrim, 1998).Power, Value and Conviction: Theological Ethics in the isolates and

Naming and Thinking God in Theology,” 302–19. Chapter 3 Thinking of GodJournal of Religion 74, no. 3 (1994):

1 For examples of conservative religious grounds, see Stanley Hauerwas, Hauerwas Reader, ed. John Berkman and Michael Cartwright (Durham: The

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