Finite and Infinite Goods

A Framework for Ethics
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-19-515371-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 424 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 691 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Adams, Robert Merrihew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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