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My paper, “Heroic Virtues in Space Exploration: Everydayness and Supererogation on Earth and Beyond,” is now available from the journal Heroism Science.
Nielsen, John N. (2024) “Heroic Virtues in Space Exploration: Everydayness and Supererogation on Earth and Beyond,” Heroism Science: Vol. 9: Iss. 1, Article 11.
DOI: 10.26736/hs.2024.01.12
This paper resulted from my participation in the Heroism Science Conference last year, though the paper goes considerably farther than my presentation. I developed an argument in this paper according to which the theological virtues (or, rather, what I call naturalistic parallels of the theological virtues) are implicated in the foundations of civilization. This is an argument that I will probably build on in further work.
