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Altruism and Christian Ethics

by Colin Grant (University of New Brunswick)

  • Hardback
  • 288 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 14 x 21.6 x 2.1 cm

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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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  • Author

    Colin Grant (University of New Brunswick)

  • Book Format

    hardback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    November 2000

  • Weight

    409g

  • Page Count

    288

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521791441

  • ISBN-10

    0521791448

  • Eden Code

    10639

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