Altruism and Christian Ethics

(Part of the New Studies in Christian Ethics Series)

by Colin Grant

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521093619

ISBN13:9780521093613

Release Date:January 2009

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:0.81 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Related Subjects

Christian Books & Bibles Christian Living Christianity Ethics Ethics & Morality Philosophy Politics & Social Sciences Religion Religion & Spirituality Religious Studies

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