Christian Ethics and Commonsense Morality - Couverture souple

Jung, Kevin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1138387169 ISBN 13 : 9781138387164

Editeur : Routledge, 2021

Synopsis

Christian Ethics and Commonsense Morality goes against the grain of various postmodern approaches to morality in contemporary religious ethics. In this book, Jung seeks to provide a new framework in which the nature of common Christian moral beliefs and practices can be given a new meaning. He suggests that, once major philosophical assumptions behind postmodern theories of morality are called into question, we may look at Christian morality in quite a different light. On his account, Christian morality is a historical morality insofar as it is rooted in the rich historical traditions of the Christian church. Yet this kind of historical dependence does not entail the evidential dependence of all moral beliefs on historical traditions. It is possible to argue for the epistemic autonomy of moral beliefs, according to which Christian and other moral beliefs can be justified independently of their historical sources. The particularity of Christian morality lies not in its particular historical sources that also function as the grounds of justification, but rather in its explanatory and motivational capacity to further articulate the kind of moral knowledge that is readily available to most human beings and to enable people to act upon their moral knowledge.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kevin Jung is Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at Wake Forest University, USA.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1138387169
• ISBN 13: 9781138387164
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 212
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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