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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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| Series: | New studies in Christian ethics. ;
18. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Alien Altruism
- Explanations for altruism
- Evidence of altruism
- The elusiveness of altruism
- Ideal Altruism
- Contract altruism
- Constructed altruism
- Collegial altruism
- Real Altruism
- Acute altruism: Agape
- Absolute altruism
- Actual altruism.
