Moral Gap - Kantian Ethics, Human Limits, and God''s Assistance

Zusatztext All told! this book can give anyone who works through it a better grasp of what it means to be moral and of how Christianity addresses the gap that even most secular philosophers find to yawn between what we are and what we ought to be. Informationen zum Autor John Hare is Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology at Yale Divinity School. He is the author of The Moral Gap and God's Call. Klappentext This book is about the gap between the moral demand on us and our natural capacities to meet it. Zusammenfassung Is morality too hard for human beings? Kant said it was, except with God's assistance. This book looks at the philosophers - from Kierkegaard to Swinburne and the author's father, R M Hare - and the alternative in Christianity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part I: Kantian Ethics 1: Kant and the Moral Demand 2: God's Suppplement 3: Moral Faith Part II: Human Limits 4: Puffing up the Capacity 6: Reducing the Demand 7: Substitutes for God's Assistance Part III: God's Assistance 8: Repentance 9: Forgiveness 10: God's Assistance Bibliography Index of Biblical Passages General Index

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• Authors: J. E. Hare, J.e. Hare, John E. Hare, John E. (Professor of Philosophy Hare
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.1997
• EAN: 9780198269571
• ISBN: 978-0-19-826957-1
• No. of pages: 302
• Series: Oxford Studies in Theological Ethics; Oxford Studies in Theological; Oxford Studies in Theological Ethics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works