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Altruism and Christian Ethics
By Colin Grant
282 pages
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Synopsis
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 leveling that loses the depths that theology makes intelligible and religion makes possible. He argues that to ...
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 leveling that loses the depths that theology makes intelligible and religion makes possible. He argues that to dispense with altruism is to dispense with God and with the divine transformation of human possibilities.
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Table of contents
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- Altruism and Christian Ethics *
- New Studies in Christian Ethics *
- Title Page *
- Content *
- General Editor's Preface xi
- Preface xiii
- Part One - Alien Altruism 1
- Chapter 1 - Explanations for Altruism 3
- Chapter 2 - Evidence of Altruism 34
- Chapter 3 - The Elusiveness of Altruism 57
- Part Two - Ideal Altruism 89
- Chapter 4 - Contract Altruism 91
- Chapter 5 - Constructed Altruism 110
- Chapter 6 - Collegial Altruism 135
- Part Three - Real Altruism 165
- Chapter 7 - Acute Altruism: Agape 167
- Altruism and Christian Ethics *
- New Studies in Christian Ethics *
- Title Page *
- Content *
- General Editor's Preface xi
- Preface xiii
- Part One - Alien Altruism 1
- Chapter 1 - Explanations for Altruism 3
- Chapter 2 - Evidence of Altruism 34
- Chapter 3 - The Elusiveness of Altruism 57
- Part Two - Ideal Altruism 89
- Chapter 4 - Contract Altruism 91
- Chapter 5 - Constructed Altruism 110
- Chapter 6 - Collegial Altruism 135
- Part Three - Real Altruism 165
- Chapter 7 - Acute Altruism: Agape 167
- Chapter 8 - Absolute Altruism 190
- Chapter 9 - Actual Altruism 218
- Select Bibliography 251
- Index 263