Godless Morality: Keeping Religion Out of Ethics - Couverture souple

Holloway, Richard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0862419093 ISBN 13 : 9780862419097

Editeur : Canongate Books, 1999

Synopsis

If God is the author of our moral code, how can we challenge it? Has increasing secularism eroded traditional moral systems? Bishop Richard Holloway challenges our assumptions and offers provocative solutions to these questions. He argues that moral codes are human constructs.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The use of God in any moral debate is so problematic as to be almost worthless. We can argue whether this or that alleged claim emanated from God, but surely it is better to leave God out of the argument altogether and find strong human reasons for supporting the systems we advocate. Now published with a new afterword by the author, in Godless Morality, Richard Holloway offers a sensible and practical approach to keeping religion out of ethics. This is a refreshing, courageous and human-centred justification for contemporary morality.

Revue de presse

'A passionate, provocative and common sense challenge to easy cant.' The Observer

'Lucid, convincing and manifestly compassionate' Mary Warnock

'A book of morals for our brave new world, by a very wise man indeed. Inspiring. Fascinating. Full of hope' Fay Weldon

'This is a courageous book for a bishop to write, and everything it says about morality is right and true' Literary Review

'His conclusions are refreshing... a brave and scholarly book' --Observer

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Canongate Books
• Date d'édition: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0862419093
• ISBN 13: 9780862419097
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible