Ethics in a Christian ContextHarper & Row, 1963 - 384 pages Part One describes just what the method of a Christian ethic as a theological discipline involves. Part Two extends the methodological description by contrasting theological ethics with the tradition of Western moral philosophy as represented by Aristotle, Kant, James, Weiss, Fromm and Brandt. . |
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... speak of as being the nature of each thing . From these things therefore it is clear 1 Aristotle , Nicomachean Ethics ... speaks of πᾶσαν πόλιν κοινωνίαν τινὰ οὖσα ( ' every state is . . .. a sort of partnership ' ) , and of πόλις καὶ ἡ ...
... speak of as being the nature of each thing . From these things therefore it is clear 1 Aristotle , Nicomachean Ethics ... speaks of πᾶσαν πόλιν κοινωνίαν τινὰ οὖσα ( ' every state is . . .. a sort of partnership ' ) , and of πόλις καὶ ἡ ...
Page 236
... speaks ' than logical , metaphysical , epistemological , and syntactical reflections upon the powers of man have been able to do.1 As these lines are being written , a current issue of The New Yorker carries an account of the ...
... speaks ' than logical , metaphysical , epistemological , and syntactical reflections upon the powers of man have been able to do.1 As these lines are being written , a current issue of The New Yorker carries an account of the ...
Page 237
... speak and the men who speak them . It is this relation which informs Gabriel Marcel's description of the man of ' proper pride ' whose ' word is himself , for between being and the word there does exist . . . an irrefragable unity ...
... speak and the men who speak them . It is this relation which informs Gabriel Marcel's description of the man of ' proper pride ' whose ' word is himself , for between being and the word there does exist . . . an irrefragable unity ...
Contents
PART | 15 |
CHRISTIAN THINKING ABOUT ETHICS | 23 |
THE CHURCH AS THE COntext of EthicAL REFLECTION | 45 |
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