ALTRUISM AND CHRISTIAN ETHICS by Grant, Colin ISBN 0521791448
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This book contends that secular altruism is a parody on the self-giving love of Christianity.
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.
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[edit] Title
ALTRUISM AND CHRISTIAN ETHICS
[edit] Author
Grant, Colin
[edit] ISBN
0521791448
[edit] Published
16/11/2000
[edit] Publisher
Cambridge University Press
[edit] Binding
hardback
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42.5 (GBP)
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