Contemporary Jesuit Epistemological Interests

James G. Murphy

Contemporary Jesuit Epistemological Interests

Department of Philosophy

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Apart from an orientation to and interest in the discernment of spirits as laid out in St Ignatius’s Spiritual Exercises, there does not exist a Jesuit epistemology as such. Compared to the numbers of Jesuit systematic theologians, scripture scholars, metaphysicians, and ethicists, there have been few Jesuit epistemologists.2 In metaphysics, Jesuits have been Thomist or Suarezian, even Platonist. In ethics, they have ranged from proportionalist through deontologist to virtue ethicist. No similar distinctive Jesuit presence is to be found in epistemology....

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	Philosophy, Theology and the Jesuit Tradition: "The Eye of Love"
State	Published - May 4 2017

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Theology
Philosophy
Contemporary Academia
Jesuit Tradition
Jesuit Epistemological Interests
Ignatius Loyola

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Epistemology
Philosophy
Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion

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