Altruism and Christian ethics
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Altruism and Christian ethics
（New studies in Christian ethics, 18）
Cambridge University Press, 2008, c2001
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Altruism & Christian ethics
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"This digitally printed version 2008"--T.p. verso
"Paperback re-issue"--P. [4] of cover
Bibliography: p. 251-262
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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.
目次
- Part I. Alien Altruism: 1. Explanations for altruism
- 2. Evidence of altruism
- 3. The elusiveness of altruism
- Part II. Ideal Altruism: 4. Contract altruism
- 5. Constructed altruism
- 6. Collegial altruism
- Part III. Real Altruism: 7. Acute altruism: agape
- 8. Absolute altruism
- 9. Actual altruism.
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