{"id":1346,"date":"2019-12-28T15:40:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T15:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/druidry.org\/\/?p=1346"},"modified":"2024-01-02T18:03:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T18:03:25","slug":"the-ninth-mount-haemus-lecture-how-beautiful-are-they-some-thoughts-on-ethics-in-celtic-and-european-mythology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/druidry.org\/resources\/the-ninth-mount-haemus-lecture-how-beautiful-are-they-some-thoughts-on-ethics-in-celtic-and-european-mythology","title":{"rendered":"Ninth Mount Haemus Lecture: How Beautiful Are They &#8211; Some thoughts on Ethics in Celtic and European Mythology"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Brendan Myers explores the way in which In Druidry, both ancient and modern, ethical ideas are presented not in the form of rules and laws, nor in the form of a utilitarian calculus of benefits and harms, but rather in the form of character-values. This way of thinking about ethics is known in contemporary philosophy as &#8216;Areteology&#8217;, or &#8216;Virtue&#8217;. Furthermore, many of the most important Druidic virtues, such as honour, integrity, inspiration, strength, courage, and so on, are not only categories of ethics. They are also categories of aesthetics. We value them not just because they are right and good; we also value them because they are beautiful. I shall therefore also explore this overlap between the aesthetic and the ethical, and show how Celtic spirituality is particularly well positioned to embody a meeting place between the ethical and the aesthetic, the beautiful and the good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mount-haemus-lectures"],"acf":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Order of Bards, Ovates &amp; Druids","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/druidry.org","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/druidry.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/druidry.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/druidry.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/druidry.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/druidry.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/druidry.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16113,"href":"https:\/\/druidry.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions\/16113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/druidry.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/druidry.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/druidry.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/druidry.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}