| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 266 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
New studies in Christian ethics
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New studies in Christian ethics.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-262) and index. |
| 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." |
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"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. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; General editor's preface; Preface; PART ONE Alien altruism; PART TWO Ideal altruism; PART THREE Real altruism; Select bibliography; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Altruism.
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Altruism. |
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Christian ethics.
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Christian ethics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Grant, Colin, 1942- Altruism and Christian ethics. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001 0521791448 (DLC) 00031167 (OCoLC)43978809 |
| ISBN |
0511012926 (electronic book) |
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9780511012921 (electronic book) |
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9780511488351 (electronic book) |
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0511488351 (electronic book) |
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9780511046797 (electronic book) |
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0511046790 (electronic book) |
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0521791448 |
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9780521791441 |
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