Moral Demands and Personal Obligations

A collection of essays (1988-92) that examines key issues in normative morality. Identifying two strains, one based on natural law and a more situational one based on the Golden Rule, it explores the need for plurality in both individual and societal ethics, and the problem of universal versus only general validity.

Table des matières

Introduction: The Difficult Golden Rule Part I. The Absolute in Moral Theology1. The Absolute in Moral Theology 2. Natural Law or Naturalistic Fallacy? 3. What Responsibility? 4. Structures of Sin 5. "Soul" and "Ensoulment" Part II. Historicity and the Moral Absolute6. Historicity and Moral Norm 7. Innovative Morality 8. Ethical Problems in the Christian Prayer of the Psalms 9. The Magisterium and Moral Theology Part III. Conscience and Moral Objectivity 10. Conscience and Conscientious Fidelity 11. "The One Who Hears You Hears Me": Episcopal Moral Directives 12. Ethical Self-Direction? 13. The Faithful Must Not Be Unsettled 14. Spiritual Foundations of the Structural Change in Western Society 15. Law and Grace: A Theme of Moral Theology

Résumé

A collection of essays (1988-92) that examines key issues in normative morality. Identifying two strains, one based on natural law and a more situational one based on the Golden Rule, it explores the need for plurality in both individual and societal ethics, and the problem of universal versus only general validity.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Josef Fuchs, Fuchs Josef, Josef/ McNeil Mbkhs
• Collaboration: Brian Mcneil (Traduction)
• Edition: Georgetown University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 01.04.1994
• EAN: 9780878405435
• ISBN: 978-0-87840-543-5
• Pages: 232
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Thèmes: Moral Demands and Personal Obligations; Moral Demands and Personal Obligations
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, religion > Philosophie: général, ouvrages de référence; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Religion, théologie > Christianisme; RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology