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In search of moral knowledge : overcoming the fact-value dichotomy
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In search of moral knowledge : overcoming the fact-value dichotomy / R. Scott Smith.
ISBN
9780830840380 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0830840389 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Publication
Downers Grove, Illinois : IVP Academic, [2014]
Physical Description
361 pages ; 23 cm
Summary
For most of the church's history, people have seen Christian ethics as normative and universally applicable. Recently, however, this view has been lost, thanks to naturalism and relativism. R. Scott Smith argues that Christians need to overcome Kant's fact-value dichotomy and recover the possibility of genuine moral and theological knowledge. --From publisher's description
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Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 06, 2014
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
A short history of Western ethics.
Christian, biblical ethics
Ancient ethics : Plato and Aristotle on moral knowledge
Moral knowledge from Augustine through Aquinas
Moral knowledge in the Reformation and the Enlightenment shift
Naturalism, relativism and postmodernism : understanding and assessing today's dominant moral paradigms.
Options for naturalistic ethics
Naturalism, knowledge and the fact-value split
More modern options : ethical relativism, Rawls's political liberalism and Korsgaard's constructivism
Introduction to the postmodern period : a plurality of different voices
MacIntyre's recovered Thomistic ethics
Hauerwas's narrative Christian ethics
Assessing MacIntyre's and Hauerwas's projects
Toward a theory of moral knowledge.
Moral realism and addressing the crisis of (moral) knowledge
Religiously based moral knowledge
and final issues.
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