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Chapter 6 - Grace Building on Nature

Love Is Diffusive

from Part II - How and Why Agape-Justice Conflicts Arise

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2023

Albino Barrera
Albino Barrera
Affiliation:
Providence College, Rhode Island
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Many agape-justice conflicts reflect the competing demands of universal love (agape) versus kin-particularistic love (justice). It is a clash between impartial and partial love. However, this conflict is not about choosing either agape or justice, but about how much of agape and justice’s claims to mix. The main issue is not one of priorities, but one of superfluity, that is, arriving at what is enough for one’s nearest and dearest. The task is in identifying the threshold that allows one to start satisfying the claims of agape after having fulfilled the claims of justice to one’s own kin.

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diffusive loveprioritiessuperfluityorder of charitykin-particularistic loveuniversal lovecircle of responsibility
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Compassion-Justice Conflicts and Christian Ethics , pp. 158 - 213
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Grace Building on Nature
  • Albino Barrera, Providence College, Rhode Island
  • Book: Compassion-Justice Conflicts and Christian Ethics
  • Online publication: 19 October 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009384667.010
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  • Grace Building on Nature
  • Albino Barrera, Providence College, Rhode Island
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  • Online publication: 19 October 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009384667.010
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  • Grace Building on Nature
  • Albino Barrera, Providence College, Rhode Island
  • Book: Compassion-Justice Conflicts and Christian Ethics
  • Online publication: 19 October 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009384667.010
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