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Record Nr.

UNINA9910449667803321

Autore

Weaver Darlene Fozard

Titolo

Self love and Christian ethics / / Darlene Fozard Weaver [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002

ISBN

1-107-13508-7

1-280-43445-7

1-139-14852-4

0-511-17796-8

0-511-06124-2

0-511-05491-2

0-511-33035-9

0-511-61383-0

0-511-06970-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 267 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

New studies in Christian ethics ; ; 23

Disciplina

241

Soggetti

Christian ethics

Self-esteem - Religious aspects - Christianity

Love - Religious aspects - Christianity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-263) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; General editor's preface; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1 The contemporary problem of self love; CHAPTER 2 Self love in Christian ethics; CHAPTER 3 A hermeneutical account of self-relation; CHAPTER 4 Right self love; CHAPTER 5 Self love and moral action; CHAPTER 6 Self love, religion, and morality; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Self love is an inescapable problem for ethics, yet much of contemporary ethics is reluctant to offer any normative moral anthropologies. Instead, secular ethics and contemporary culture promote a norm of self-realization which is subjective and uncritical. Christian ethics also fails to address this problem directly, because it tends to investigate self love within the context of conflicts between the



self's interests and those of her neighbors. Self Love and Christian Ethics argues for right self love as the solution of proper self-relation that intersects with love for God and love for neighbor. Darlene Fozard Weaver explains that right self love entails a true self-understanding that is embodied in the person's concrete acts and relations. In making this argument, she calls upon ethicists to revisit ontological accounts of the self and to devote more attention to particular moral acts.