iii Look for and list down other sources wherein we find a dialogue between ethics and the various domains of aesthetic , culture and religion

iii Look for and list down other sources wherein we find a dialogue between ethics and the
various domains of aesthetic , culture and religion
THE AESTHETICS AND
ETHICS OF FAITH
A Dialogue Between Liberationist
and Pragmatic Thought
CHRISTOPHER D. TIRRES
The Book is "The Aesthetics and Ethics of Faith " A dialogue between Liberationist
and
Pragmatic Thought by Christopher D. Tirres. The book is all about how, Tirres looks at the
aesthetic and ethical dimension of faith through the via crucis , the Good Friday event , coupled
with the siete palabras (seven words ) and Pesame . These rituals , prayers , and symbols have both
a sensorial as well as epistemnic and imaginative
quality to them , engaging both the body and the
mind . The aesthetic qualities found in ritual produce ethical qualities , as realized in new moral
sensibilities . The aesthetic , as embodied in ritual , subverts and collapses dichotomies
of the
event : the past and present , the space of the via crucis and their community , as well as how the
death of Jesus in Mary’s weeping reminds them of the present life of the community. The
aesthetic movement of ritual opens up the imaginative and provides the space for an ethical
response . This leads to an interesting insight that Tirres introduces through the pragmatic
understanding
of non -reductive empiricism
(90): aesthetics and ethics are not two distinct
categories
of experience that must be pieced together ; rather , human experience itself contains
aesthetic and ethical qualities within it. They are already related within experience itself