Altruism and Christian Ethics

by Colin Grant

Book Overview

Separated from its anchorage in religion, ethics has followed the social sciences in seeing human beings as fundamentally characterised by self-interest, so that altruism is either naively idealistic or arrogantly self-sufficient. Colin Grant contends that, as a modern secular concept, altruism is a parody on the self-giving love of Christianity, so that its dismissal represents a social levelling that loses the depths that theology makes intelligible...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521093619
• ISBN13: 9780521093613
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"