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Altruism and Christian ethics /
"Separated from its anchorage in religion, ethics has followed the social sciences in seeing human beings as fundamentally characterized by self-interest, so that altruism is either naively idealistic or arrogantly self-sufficient. Colin Grant contends that, as a modern secular concept, altruis...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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| Series: | New studies in Christian ethics.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | "Separated from its anchorage in religion, ethics has followed the social sciences in seeing human beings as fundamentally characterized by self-interest, so that altruism is either naively idealistic or arrogantly self-sufficient. Colin Grant contends that, as a modern secular concept, altruism is a parody on the self-giving love of Christianity, so that its dismissal represents a social levelling that loses the depths that theology makes intelligible and religion makes possible." "The Christian affirmation is that God is characterized by self-giving love (agape), then expected of Christians. Lacking this theological background, the focus on self-interest in sociobiology and economics, and on human realism in the political focus of John Rawls or the feminist sociability of Carol Gilligan, finds altruism naive or a dangerous distraction from real possibilities of mutual support. This book argues that to dispense with altruism is to dispense with God and with the divine transformation of human possibilities."--Jacket |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 266 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-262) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511012926 9780511012921 9780511488351 0511488351 9780511046797 0511046790 1107121515 9781107121515 0521093619 9780521093613 0511153643 9780511153648 1280432772 9781280432774 0511327994 9780511327995 |