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Altruism and Christian Ethics (New Studies in Christian Ethics) Book

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. He argues that to dispense with altruism is to dispense with God and with the divine transformation of human possibilities.Read More

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  • 0521791448
  • 9780521791441
  • Colin Grant
  • 16 November 2000
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 286
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