Finite and infinite goods : a framework for ethics / Robert Merrihew Adams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adams, Robert Merrihew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and ethics.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 410 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Renowned scholar Robert Adams explores the relation between religion and ethics through a comprehensive philosophical account of a theistically-based framework for ethics. Adams' framework begins with the good rather than the right, and with excellence rather than usefulness. He argues that loving the excellent, of which adoring God is a clear example, is the most fundamental aspect of a life well lived. Developing his original and detailed theory, Adams contends that devotion, the sacred, grace, martyrdom, worship, vocation, faith, and other concepts drawn from religious ethics have been sorely overlooked in moral philosophy and can enrich the texture of ethical thought.

Contents:

God as the good

The transcendence of the good

Well-being and excellence

The sacred and the bad

Eros

Grace

Devotion

Idolatry

Symbolic value

Obligation

Divine commands

Abraham's dilemma

Vocation

Politics and the good

Revelation of the good

Moral faith.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-400) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-47211-1

9786610472116

0-19-802947-0

0-585-36123-1

OCLC:

922952681