Altruism and Christian Ethics New studies in Christian Ethics 1st Edition by Colin Grant 9780521791441 0511012926

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ISBN 10: 0511012926

ISBN 13: 9780521791441

Author: Colin Grant

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 leveling 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.

Table of contents:

Part One – Alien Altruism
Chapter 1: Explanations for altruism
Chapter 2: Evidence of altruism
Chapter 3: The elusiveness of altruism

Part Two – Ideal Altruism
Chapter 4: Contract altruism
Chapter 5: Constructed altruism
Chapter 6: Collegial altruism

Part Three – Real Altruism
Chapter 7: Acute altruism: agape
Chapter 8: Absolute altruism
Chapter 9: Actual altruism

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