Agape ethics : moral realism and love for all life / William Greenway.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greenway, William, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian ethics.

Agape.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (160 pages)

Place of Publication:

Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, 2016.

Summary:

Consider intense moments when you have been seized by joy or, in different contexts, by anguish for another person, or a cat or dog, or perhaps even for a squirrel or possum struck as it dashed across the road: whether glorious or haunting, these are among the most profound and meaningful moments in our lives. Agape Ethics focuses our attention on such moments with utter seriousness and argues they reveal a spiritual reality, the reality of agape. Powerful streams of modern Western rationality reject the idea of agape. This has created a crisis of foundations in modern ethics and alienated us from love for all creatures. Working wholly within the bounds of reason, Agape Ethics joins an increasingly vibrant struggle to legitimate the spiritual reality of agape, to awaken people to its power, to clarify its ethical implications, and to validate our spiritual communion with all creatures in all creation. The result is a powerful, inclusive, and wholly reasonable defense of moral realism that should speak to all who are passionate about creating a maximally loving and good world.

Contents:

Part one : awakening and agape

Love diminished, love betrayed

Morality diminished, morality betrayed

A spirit not quite lost : rekindling the spark

Part two : science, scientism, morality

Science not scientism

Excursus on the illusion of an argument : Daniel Dennett's "Conscious Explained"

Affirming science and moral realism

Part three : beyond objectivity, relativism, and extremism : moral realism, ethical surety, and the sanctity of life

Against ethical relativism

Against ethical extremism

All life is sacred

Part four : perfect love in an imperfect world : agape ethics

Moral sensitivity, ethical judgment, ethical conviction

Comparing incomparables : killing nonhuman creatures.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 7, 2017).

ISBN:

9781498202398

149820239X