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Autore: |
Grant Colin <1942->
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Titolo: |
Altruism and Christian ethics / / Colin Grant
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Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, U.K. ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2001 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xix, 266 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina: | 241/.4 |
Soggetto topico: | Altruism |
Christian ethics | |
Note generali: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-262) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Altruism and Christian ethics ![]() |
ISBN: | 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 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910820828003321 |
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