In search of moral knowledge : overcoming the fact-value dichotomy / R. Scott Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, R. Scott, 1957- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian ethics.

Ethics--History.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (366 p.)

Place of Publication:

2014.

Downers Grove, Illinois : IVP Academic, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For most of the church's history, people have seen Christian ethics as normative and universally applicable. Recently, however, this view has been lost, thanks to naturalism and relativism. R. Scott Smith argues that Christians need to overcome Kant's fact-value dichotomy and recover the possibility of genuine moral and theological knowledge.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Part One: A Short History of Western Ethics""; ""1 Christian, Biblical Ethics""; ""2 Ancient Ethics""; ""3 Moral Knowledge from Augustine Through Aquinas""; ""4 Moral Knowledge in the Reformation and the Enlightenment Shift""; ""Part Two: Naturalism, Relativism and Postmodernism""; ""5 Options for Naturalistic Ethics""; ""6 Naturalism, Knowledge and the Fact-Value Split""; ""7 More Modern Options""; ""8 Introduction to the Postmodern Period""

""9 MacIntyre�s Recovered Thomistic Ethics""""10 Hauerwas�s Narrative Christian Ethics""; ""11 Assessing MacIntyre�s and Hauerwas�s Projects""; ""Part Three: Toward a Theory of Moral Knowledge""; ""12 Moral Realism and Addressing the Crisis of (Moral) Knowledge""; ""13 Religiously Based Moral Knowledge�and Final Issues""; ""Index""; ""Praise for In Search of Moral Knowledge""; ""About the Author""; ""More Titles from InterVarsity Press""

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

9780830880218

0830880216

OCLC:

881317177