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    Rioting as Flourishing? Reconsidering Virtue Ethics in Times of Civil Unrest
    with Nicole Symmonds
    Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 38 (1): 25-42. 2018.
    From Black Power to Black Lives Matter, political resisters protesting systemic racism have used riots and other manifestations of outrage as a way to grasp at flourishing. Yet such a tactic seems antithetical to the core concept of flourishing as recognized within virtue ethics. Building on the work of womanist and feminist ethicists and moral philosophers who have defended anger as a morally apt, even virtuous response to injustice, we reconsider the relationship between a community’s flourish…Read more