Ethics Without Principles: Another Possible Ethics--Perspectives from Latin America - Couverture rigide

May, Roy H

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1498225276 ISBN 13 : 9781498225274

Editeur : Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2015

Synopsis

Ethics in the West too often equates morality with universal moral principles, thus imposing lifestyles and moral criteria that do not respect differences and local histories. Even Christianity proposes ethics that is based on eternal, absolute and universal truths or principles, independent of sociocultural and historical contexts. The problem is that these universal moral laws become a means of social control to exclude those who are different: non-Christian religions, nonwhite races, non-Western cultures, and poor and marginalized social classes everywhere. To these can be added minorities marginalized because of sexual orientation, physical handicaps, and women of all sectors and cultures. Another kind of ethics is urgent. For these reasons, Christians in Latin America and other parts are seeking innovative ways of envisioning ethics from their marginalized and discriminated social locations in order to find another possible ethics, an ethics that is not universal and not based on eternal truths or principles, but rather is contextual and historical and that takes into account real-life realities. Only an ethics that does this will be liberative. Important steps toward this other possible ethics have been taken by the theology of liberation by developing a contextual and intercultural morality.

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À propos de l'auteur

Roy H. May Jr. is a retired minister and missionary of the United Methodist Church. For many years he was professor of theology and ethics at the Latin American Biblical University in San Jose, Costa Rica, where he resides. He is the author of The Poor of the Land (1991) and Joshua and the Promised Land (1997).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1498225276
• ISBN 13: 9781498225274
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 98
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