Altruism and Christian ethics / Colin Grant.

By:

Grant, Colin, 1942-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: New studies in Christian ethicsPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.Description: 1 online resource (xix, 266 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0511012926
9780511012921
9780511488351
0511488351
9780511046797
0511046790
1107121515
9781107121515
0521093619
9780521093613
0511153643
9780511153648
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9781280432774
0511327994
9780511327995

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Altruism and Christian ethics.DDC classification:

241/.4 21

LOC classification:

BJ1474 .G73 2001eb

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11.62

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Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; General editor's preface; Preface; PART ONE Alien altruism; PART TWO Ideal altruism; PART THREE Real altruism; Select bibliography; Index.

Review: "Separated from its anchorage in religion, ethics has followed the social sciences in seeing human beings as fundamentally characterized 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."Summary: "The Christian affirmation is that God is characterized 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."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-262) and index.

"Separated from its anchorage in religion, ethics has followed the social sciences in seeing human beings as fundamentally characterized 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 characterized 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."--Jacket.