SELF LOVE AND CHRISTIAN ETHICS by Darlene Fozard Weaver ( 9780521817813 )

Item Details

Title:

SELF LOVE AND CHRISTIAN ETHICS

By:

Darlene Fozard Weaver

Format:

Hardback

List price:

£51.00

Our price:

£44.63

Discount:

12.5% off

You save:

£6.37

ISBN 10:

0521817811

ISBN 13:

9780521817813

Availability:

Usually dispatched within 1-3 weeks.

Delivery rates

Stock:

Currently 0 available

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

17 October, 2002

Series:

New Studies in Christian Ethics No.23

Pages:

282

Description:

In this book, Darlene Fozard Weaver challenges contemporary culture's promotion of self-realization and argues for proper self love.

Synopsis:

Self love is an inescapable problem for ethics, yet much of contemporary ethics is reluctant to offer any normative moral anthropologies. Instead, secular ethics and contemporary culture promote a norm of self-realization which is subjective and uncritical. Christian ethics also fails to address this problem directly, because it tends to investigate self love within the context of conflicts between the self's interests and those of her neighbors. Self Love and Christian Ethics argues for right self love as the solution of proper self-relation that intersects with love for God and love for neighbor. Darlene Fozard Weaver explains that right self love entails a true self-understanding that is embodied in the person's concrete acts and relations. In making this argument, she calls upon ethicists to revisit ontological accounts of the self and to devote more attention to particular moral acts.

Publication:

Imprint:

Cambridge University Press

Returns:

Returnable

Some other items by this author:

SELF LOVE AND CHRISTIAN ETHICS

SELF LOVE AND CHRISTIAN ETHICS (PB)

THE ACTING PERSON AND CHRISTIAN MORAL LIFE

THE ACTING PERSON AND CHRISTIAN MORAL LIFE (PB)

THE ETHICS OF EMBRYO ADOPTION AND THE CATHOLIC TRADITION (HB)

THE ETHICS OF EMBRYO ADOPTION AND THE CATHOLIC TRADITION (PB)