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A five page paper which looks critically at Yearley's perspective on religious plurality and the need for a 'new virtue' of spiritual regret. Bibliography lists 1 source
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and the study of religion is that he is attempting to adopt a comparatively neutral perspective towards the issue of virtue in religion, and the way in which different belief
systems ought to be perceived and experienced, and yet at the same time it is evident that he is not able to genuinely transcend his own cultural and religious parameters.
He begins the lecture, for instance, by giving examples of dissatisfaction with religious belief systems on the part of various individuals from different faiths: a Buddhist and a Catholic, he
asserts, have consulted him about what they perceive as inadequacies in the way that they perceive their religious and cultural heritage. One might assume from this that the major part
of Yearleys text will adopt an impartial and perhaps critical standpoint with regard to religion and spiritual development, but this is not in fact the case.
He refers, for example, to alien but tempting religions, which immediately reveals that he is not considering
the question from a neutral perspective, but from a specific religious bias. The assumption is not that all religions have equal validity, but that he sees one belief system as
having inherent familiarity and truth, and others as alien in the sense of irrevocably different, and tempting in the sense that one might be drawn to them against ones better
nature. However, he then goes on to try and establish a kind of common ground in human ethical behaviour - the idea of virtue - which he asserts is an
abstract way of judging human excellence and therefore should be seen as underpinning, but separate from, different belief systems.
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