Ethics attends to complex questions of how one should live and what kind of person one ought to be, both individually and in community. Whatever tradition, geographic complex, or historical time period considered, ethics examines the nature of human flourishing in religious texts, lives, and communities, and seeks to understand processes of moral formation through reading, exemplary instruction, social and political structures, and rituals and other practices of bodily discipline.
Recent dissertations:
- “Ethics and Religion in a Classic of Sanskrit Drama: Harṣa’s Nāgānanda
- “Law, Equity, and Calvin’s Moral Critique of Protestant Faith”
- “Fragile Virtue: Interpreting Women’s Monastic Practice in Early Medieval India”
- “For the Common Moral Benefit: Thinking Through the Conditions Necessary to Secure the Moral Priority and Fixity of Individual Rights”
Affiliated Faculty
Raúl Zegarra
Assistant Professor of Roman Catholic Theological Studies
