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Wiley InterScience

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Volume 36 Issue 4, Pages 585 - 595

Published Online: 7 Jan 2003

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Mindful Virtue, Mindful Reverence
Ursula Goodenough & Paul Woodruff
  1 Washington University,   2 University of Texas
Copyright 2001 by the Joint Publication Board of Zygon
KEYWORDS
mindfulness • morality • religious naturalism • reverence • virtue ethics

ABSTRACT

How does one talk about moral thought and moral action as a religious naturalist? We explore this question by considering two human capacities: the capacity for mindfulness, and the capacity for virtue. We suggest that mindfulness is deeply enhanced by an understanding of the scientific worldview and that the four cardinal virtues—courage, fairmindedness, humaneness, and reverence—are rendered coherent by mindful reflection. We focus on the concept of mindful reverence and propose that the mindful reverence elicited by the evolutionary narrative is at the heart of religious naturalism. Religious education, we suggest, entails the cultivation of mindful virtue, in ourselves and in our children.


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10.1111/0591-2385.00386 About DOI

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