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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455725803321

Autore

Adams Robert Merrihew

Titolo

Finite and infinite goods [[electronic resource] ] : a framework for ethics / / Robert Merrihew Adams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999

ISBN

1-280-47211-1

9786610472116

0-19-802947-0

0-585-36123-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 410 p.)

Disciplina

291.5

Soggetti

Religion and ethics

Ethics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-400) and index.

Nota di contenuto

God as the good -- The transcendence of the good -- Well-being and excellence -- The sacred and the bad -- Eros -- Grace -- Devotion -- Idolatry -- Symbolic value -- Obligation -- Divine commands -- Abraham's dilemma -- Vocation -- Politics and the good -- Revelation of the good -- Moral faith.

Sommario/riassunto

Robert Adams gives a comprehensive philosophical account of a theistically-based framework for ethics. He draws on over 20 years of his published work to create this overarching framework, which is based upon the idea of a transcendent, infinite good, which is God, and its relation to the many finite examples of good in our experience.