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Finite and infinite goods : a framework for ethics / Robert Merrihew Adams.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adams, Robert Merrihew, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion and ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 410 pages)
- Other Title:
- Framework for ethics
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Robert Adams gives a comprehensive philosophical account of a theistically-based framework for ethics. He draws on over 20 years of his published work to create this overarching framework, which is based upon the idea of a transcendent infinite good, which is God, and its relation to the many finite examples of good in our experience.
- 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 and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-988090-5
- OCLC:
- 1181705431
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