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Altruism and Christian ethics /
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Title/Author:
Altruism and Christian ethics // Colin Grant.
remainder title:
Altruism & Christian Ethics
Author:
Grant, Colin,
Description:
1 online resource (xix, 266 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:
Altruism. -
Online resource:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511488351
ISBN:
9780511488351 (ebook)
Altruism and Christian ethics /
Grant, Colin,1942-
Altruism and Christian ethics /
Altruism & Christian EthicsColin Grant. - 1 online resource (xix, 266 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - New studies in Christian ethics ;18. - New studies in Christian ethics. ;18..
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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.
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.
ISBN: 9780511488351 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:
578187
Altruism.
LC Class. No.: BJ1474 / .G73 2001
Dewey Class. No.: 241/.4
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https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511488351
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