Rights and Christian Ethics
Rights and Christian Ethics
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GBPKieran Cronin aims in this book to show how a Christian perspective may have something fruitful to contribute to the language of rights. In so doing, he examines some of the complexities involved in using this language, drawing from literature in moral philosophy and jurisprudence in the process. The novelty of his approach lies in the attempt to distinguish two complementary aspects within metaethics, aspects which the author calls the 'discursive' and the 'imaginative'. Cronin regards the use of models (which are extended metaphors) as providing a bridge between these two aspects, and the imaginative metaethics which emerges is seen to be rich in possibilities for both secular and Christian understandings of rights-talk.
- First in a new series engaging with the secular moral debate at the highest possible intellectual level
- Makes a sophisticated theological contribution to rights-language
- Brings together Christian ethics and moral philosophy in a fruitful way
Product details
January 2009Paperback
9780521092944
348 pages
216 × 140 × 20 mm
0.44kg
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Metaethics - meaning and justification
- 2. Initial elucidation of rights-language
- 3. Conceptual scepticism and rights
- 4. Moral and theological scepticism
- 5. Imagination, metaethics and rights
- 6. Theological imagination and rights
- 7. Rights, power and covenant
- 8. Theological foundations of rights-language
- Afterword: Criteria for theological/metaethical models
- Index.
