Tag: Orthodox Morality

The Soviet Genealogy of “Orthodox Morality”
Ethics, Orthodoxy and Modernity

The Soviet Genealogy of “Orthodox Morality”

by Regula Zwahlen The term “Orthodox morality”—in combination with “traditional values”—is unquestionably a neologism. A passage from Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Genealogy of Morals” gets right to the point of Aristotle Papanikolaou’s recent essay on Public Orthodoxy: “We need a critique of moral values, the value of these values is […] to be called into question—and for…

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I Am a Traditionalist; Therefore, I Am
Theology

I Am a Traditionalist; Therefore, I Am

ру́сский   Amidst the culture wars, the word “traditionalist” has gained currency and has been co-opted in a variety of ways. Broadly, it is a self-naming mostly by those who identify as religious and are seemingly faithful to their religious tradition in the face of attacks either against religion in general or by others within…

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