Moral development, virtue, and gender: A comparison of the differing accounts of Lisa Sowle Cahill, Servais Pinkaers, and Paul Evdokimov (Lawrence Kohlberg, Carol Gilligan).

摘要

Contemporary schools of thought in philosophy and psychology, utilizing ideas gained from new reflections on gender, offer their own accounts of human moral development. Moral theology can respond to these new directions in thought by offering its own account of moral development. This dissertation considers a select group of theologians to illustrate this claim. The thought of Lisa Sowle Cahill, Servais Pinckaers, and Paul Evdokimov can shed light on the tradition of virtue theory in moral theology as a tool towards the construction of a Christian account of moral development that also incorporates ideas about gender.; Gender also holds a prominent place in the research of Lawrence Kohlberg and Carol Gilligan. The language of the Kohlberg-Gilligan debate will serve as a starting point to consider what role gender might play in a specifically theological account of moral development by adopting the contrast of "justice vs. care."; Lisa Sowle Cahill, Servais Pinckaers, and Paul Evdokimov provide theological accounts with significantly different balances between the role of gender and the use of virtue theory. These balances affect the accounts of moral development that can be derived from their thought. The different results of this investigation are considered individually, and then evaluated for their strengths and weaknesses, both on their own and in comparison to one another. In each case, the language of "justice vs. care" provides a consistent vocabulary for the evaluation. The differing results suggest directions for future research.