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UNINA9910455335603321 |
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Grant Colin <1942-> |
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Titolo |
Altruism and Christian ethics / / Colin Grant [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001 |
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1-107-12151-5 |
0-521-09361-9 |
0-511-15364-3 |
0-511-04679-0 |
0-511-48835-1 |
1-280-43277-2 |
0-511-17408-X |
0-511-32799-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xix, 266 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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New studies in Christian ethics ; ; 18 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Altruism |
Christian ethics |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-262) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Alien Altruism -- Explanations for altruism -- Evidence of altruism -- The elusiveness of altruism -- Ideal Altruism -- Contract altruism -- Constructed altruism -- Collegial altruism -- Real Altruism -- Acute altruism: Agape -- Absolute altruism -- Actual altruism. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Separated from its anchorage in religion, ethics has followed the social sciences in seeing human beings as fundamentally characterised 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 characterised 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 |
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