For most of the church's history, people have seen Christian ethics as normative and universally applicable. Recently, however, this view has been lost, thanks to naturalism and relativism. R. Scott Smith argues that Christians need to overcome Kant's fact-value dichotomy and recover the possibility of genuine moral and theological knowledge.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: A Short History of Western Ethics
1. Christian, Biblical Ethics
2. Ancient Ethics: Plato and Aristotle on Moral Knowledge
3. Moral Knowledge from Augustine through Aquinas
4. Moral Knowledge in the Reformation and the Enlightenment Shift
Part Two: Naturalism, Relativism and Postmodernism: Understanding and Assessing Today?s Dominant Moral Paradigms
5. Options for Naturalistic Ethics
6. Naturalism, Knowledge and the Fact-Value Split
7. More Modern Options: Ethical Relativism, Rawls?s Political Liberalism and Korsgaard?s Constructivism
8. Introduction to the Postmodern Period: A Plurality of Different Voices
9. Mac Intyre?s Recovered Thomistic Ethics
10. Hauerwas?s Narrative Christian Ethics
11. Assessing Mac Intyre?s and Hauerwas?s Projects
Part Three: Toward a Theory of Moral Knowledge
12. Moral Realism and Addressing the Crisis of (Moral) Knowledge
13. Religiously Based Moral Knowledge?and Final Issues
Index
About the author
R. Scott Smith (Ph.D., University of Southern California) is associate professor of ethics and Christian apologetics at Biola University. He is the author of Virtue Ethics and Moral Knowledge: Philosophy of Language After Mac Intyre and Hauerwas(Ashgate, 2003), Truth and the New Kind of Christian(Crossway, 2005) and Naturalism and our Knowledge of Reality (Ashgate, 2012).
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