Robert Merrihew Adams

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A Framework for Ethics

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Renowned scholar Robert Adams explores the relation between religion and ethics through a comprehensive philosophical account of a theistically-based framework for ethics. Adams' framework begins with the good rather than the right, and with excellence rather than usefulness. He argues that loving the excellent, of which adoring God is a clear example, is the most fundamental aspect of a life well lived. Developing his original and detailed theory, Adams contends that devotion, the sacred, grace, martyrdom, worship, vocation, faith, and other concepts drawn from religious ethics have been sorely overlooked in moral philosophy and can enrich the texture of ethical thought.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 1999
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199880904
• Artikelnr.: 42727587

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part One: The Nature of The Good
1: God as the Good
2: The Transcendence of the Good
3: Well-Being and Excellence
4: The Sacred and the Bad
Part Two: Loving the Good
5: Eros
6: Grace
7: Devotion
8: Idolatry
9: Symbolic Value
Part Three: The Good and the Right
10: Obligation
11: Divine Commands
12: Abraham's Dilemma
13: Vocation
14: Politics and the Good
Part Four: The Epistemology of Value
15: Revelation of the Good
16: Moral Faith
Bibliography
Index