Ethiek als verbeelding van het goede leven. Enkele overwegingen bij en naar aanleiding van Michael Banner, The Ethics of Everyday Life

Abstract

Michael Banner’s The Ethics of Everyday Life begins by sketching his understanding of contemporary moral as ‘hard cases ethics’, especially in its connections with the rise of Western European moral theology in the slipstream of the penitentials, a development which led to an estrangement from everyday life. With the help of a recently developed approach in social anthropology Banner reframes Christian ethics and brings it back toeveryday experience. He argues that intense and extensive Christian reflection within the Christian tradition on the life of Christ is a resource of prime importance for Christian moral theology, one which will stimulate the human imagination.