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Altruism and Christian Ethics (Paperback)
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Altruism and Christian Ethics (Paperback)
Series: New Studies in Christian Ethics
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Separated from its anchorage in religion, ethics has followed the
social sciences in seeing human beings as fundamentally
characterised 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. The Christian affirmation
is that God is characterised by self-giving love (agape), then
expected of Christians. Lacking this theological background, the
focus on self-interest in sociobiology and economics, and on human
realism in the political focus of John Rawls or the feminist
sociability of Carol Gilligan, finds altruism naive or a dangerous
distraction from real possibilities of mutual support. This book
argues that to dispense with altruism is to dispense with God and
with the divine transformation of human possibilities.
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