Walker Ethics and the Autonomy of Philosophy

Breaking Ties with Traditional Christian Praxis and Theory
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4982-2781-0
Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 322 Seiten

In Ethics and the Autonomy of Philosophy, Bernard Walker sets out with two objectives. First, Walker argues that ethics is autonomous as a discipline. Oftentimes ethics books, from a Christian perspective, lean toward grounding ethics in theology or in biblical proof texting. Walker departs from this tradition. Ethics grounded in theology entails a limited scope for those doing ethics in that the Christian God must be assumed for both Christian and non-Christian when at the table of ethical dialogue. For the non-Christian, this loads the dice and shuts down ethical consensus and dialogue, if not ethical truth. With that said, this book does not depart from Christian ethical views on such issues as the sanctity of life, antiracism, the death penalty, the objectivity of ethics, and the importance of integrating faith into ethics; however, Walker does so from a common denominator of philosophy rather than theology.
Second, Walker ventures into the streets and engages the man/woman on the streets approach to ethics and ethical decision-making. He points out the shortcomings of the ubiquitous views of the man/woman on the streets, viz., cultural relativism, skepticism, and the attitude that ethics is merely a matter of personal choice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Walker, Bernard James

Über Autor(innen)

Walker, Bernard James
Bernard James Walker is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Ethics in the College of Adult and Professional Studies at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Bernard James Walker is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Ethics in the College of Adult and Professional Studies at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota.