On Teaching and Learning Christian Ethics / D. Stephen Long.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Long, D. Stephen, 1960- author.

Series:

Morale.

Moral Traditions Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian ethics--Study and teaching.

Christian ethics.

Christian ethics--Catholic authors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"This book addresses what it means to teach and learn ethics. While teaching ethics is universally applauded, how one goes about it is much more difficult and contested than is often recognized. The approach of the work is historical, philosophical, and theological. It begins with the historical transformation in the mid nineteenth century by Henry Sidgwick, who rejected establishing ethics on theology or metaphysics. G. E. Moore, John Rawls, Thomas Hurka, Bart Schultz, and Peter Singer later explicitly developed ethics indebted to Sidgwick. However, G. E. M. Anscombe and Philippa Foot's important interventions in modern moral philosophy opened new possibilities for teaching and learning ethics that bear strong resemblances to pre-Sidgwick moral philosophy. The common thread between them is Thomas Aquinas, who had a different understanding of human action than Sidgwick. For Aquinas, Foot, and Anscombe, ethics does not concern a procedure to guide action to what is right or what ought to be, but exists within a metaphysical and theological realm in which the good is more basic than the right. The good is attractive so desire for it is an essential element of the moral life"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Recent Titles from the Moral Traditions Series

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication

Contents

Preface

Introduction: Clarifying Ethics

Part I: Teaching Moral Philosophy in Conversation with Moral Theology

1 Teaching and Learning Ethics

2 Rawls and Anscombe, Sidgwickian Dissenters

3 Faith, Perfection, and Hope in Moral Philosophy

Conclusion to Part I: Destabilizing the Boundary to Teaching and Learning Ethics

Part II: Teaching Moral Theology in Conversation with Moral Philosophy

Introduction: Sketching the Maurician Landscape

4 F. D. Maurice's Theological Vocation

5 Maurice's Moral Theology

6 Infusing Virtue and Thomistic Tensions

7 Retrieving Thomas Aquinas's Moral Science with Caution

Conclusion: Learning and Teaching Ethics

Bibliography

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781647124151

1647124158