Altruism and Christian ethics /

Separated from its anchorage in religion, ethics has followed the social sciences in seeing human beings as fundamentally characterised by self-interest, so that altruism is either naively idealistic or arrogantly self-sufficient. Colin Grant contends that, as a modern secular concept, altruism is a...

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Main Author: Grant, Colin, 1942- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Series:New studies in Christian ethics. ; 18.
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