Ethics: Approaching Moral Decisions
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
With over 60,000 copies in print since its original publication in 1984, Ethics has served numerous generations of students as a classic introduction to philosophical ethics from a Christian perspective. Over the years the philosophical landscape has changed somewhat, and in this second edition Arthur Holmes adjusts the argument and information throughout, completely rewriting the original chapter on virtue ethics and adding a new chapter on the moral agent. Holmes addresses the questions: What is good? What is right? How can we know? In doing so he also surveys a variety of approaches to ethics, including cultural relativism, emotivism, ethical egoism and utilitarianism—all with an acknowledgment of the new postmodern environment.
Top Highlights
“In the 1960s a moral revolution that had been brewing for decades burst upon us.” (Page 11)
“morality is not a matter of independent rational judgment but is causally dependent on cultural context.” (Page 21)
“contribute to ethics, not just what ethics contributes to biblical Christianity.” (Page 14)
“What can we conclude about egoism from a Christian standpoint?” (Page 42)
“Cultural relativism is the view that moral beliefs and practices vary with and depend on the human needs and social conditions of particular cultures, so that no moral beliefs can be universally true.” (Page 19)
- Title: Ethics: Approaching Moral Decisions
- Author: Arthur F. Holmes
- Edition: Second Edition
- Series: Contours of Christian Philosophy
- Publisher: IVP Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2007
- Logos Release Date: 2020
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Ethics; Christian ethics
- ISBNs: 9780830875092, 9780830828036, 0830875093, 0830828036
- Resource ID: LLS:THCSPPRCHNDCSNS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:19:08Z