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Jan 16, 2015 · The concept of moral innocence is frequently referenced in popular culture, ordinary language, literature, religious doctrine, and psychology. The morally innocent are often thought to be morally pure, incapable of wrongdoing, ignorant of morality, resistant to sin, or even saintly. In spite of, or perhaps because of this frequency of use the characterization of moral innocence continues to ...
- Zachary J. Goldberg
- zachary.goldberg@ur.de
- 2015
The argument proceeds to distinguish moral innocence from both “simple moral ignorance” and moral purity. I posit “simple moral ignorance” as the absence of any moral acumen whatsoever. To equate moral innocence with simple moral ignorance is inaccurate because the morally innocent do indeed recognize a moral order, albeit one that is ...
- Zachary J. Goldberg
- 2015
Sep 25, 2017 · Such questions form the basis of this series of fine essays in literature and theology, from Elizabeth S. Dodd’s discussion of the work of the metaphysical poets John Donne, George Herbert, and Thomas Traherne (Dodds having already written a full-length book on Traherne entitled Boundless Innocence [2015]), to Devon Abts on Geoffrey Hill and Gerard Manley Hopkins, Carl E. Findley on Robert ...
- David Jasper
- 2017
term “literature” is fraught with connotations whic h could leave one stranded in a sea of post-structural relativity, or which would reignite the debate between highbrow and lowbrow, or fire up T. S. Eliot’s canon once more. 2 For the purpose of this volume, a provisional definition of literature
two central concerns: the innocence of the characters within the texts, and the epistemological journey of the reader. Deriving from the Latin word “nocens”,1 “innocence” is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as “[t]he quality or fact of being innocent”; the definition continues, innocence is “[f]reedom from sin, guilt, or moral
moral innocent is like a child who does not know what he is doing.'2 There is a temptation to add, with Peter Johnson, that 'innocence as moral purity implies an inability to inflict harm.' However that seems too hasty. What it does imply is an inability to inflict harm intentionally.3 Unlike innocence of a deed, the conception of an innocent ...
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Jun 1, 2015 · The concept of moral innocence is frequently referenced in popular culture, ordinary language, literature, religious doctrine, and psychology. The morally innocent are often thought to be morally ...