Beyond Bumper Sticker Ethics – An Introduction to Theories of Right and Wrong

Steve Wilkens (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

230 Seiten

2011
Inter-Varsity Press,US (Verlag)
978-0-8308-3936-0 (ISBN)

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Steve Wilkens exposes the complex ethical systems lurking behind the most common slogans of our culture, offering a Christian evaluation of each. In this revised and expanded edition, the author has updated his introductory remarks about each ethical system and has included new chapters on evolutionary ethics and narrative ethics.

Ideas have consequences. And sometimes those ideas can be squeezed into slogans, slapped on bumper stickers and tweeted into cyberspace. These compact messages coming at us from all directions often compress in a few words entire ethical systems. It turns out that there's a lot more to the ideas behind these slogans--ideas that need to be sorted out before we make important moral decisions as individuals or as societies.
In this revised and expanded edition of Steve Wilkens's widely-used text, the author has updated his introductions to basic ethical systems:

cultural relativism
ethical egoism
utilitarianism
behaviorism
situation ethics
Kantian ethics
virtue ethics
natural law ethics
divine command theory

He has also added two new chapters:

evolutionary ethics
narrative ethics

With clarity and wit Wilkens unpacks the complicated ideas behind the slogans and offers Christian evaluations of each.

Steve Wilkens (Ph.D., Fuller Theological Seminary) is professor of philosophy and ethics at Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, California. His books include Hidden Worldviews (coauthored with Mark L. Sanford) and two volumes in Christianity Western Thought (coauthored with Alan G. Padgett).

Preface and Acknowledgments

1 Bumper Stickers and Ethical Systems

2 When in Rome, Do as the Romans Do: Cultural Relativism

3 Look Out for Number One: Ethical Egoism

4 I Couldn?t Help Myself: Behaviorism

5 Survival of the (Ethical) Fittest: Evolutionary Ethics

6 The Greatest Happiness: Utilitarianism

7 It?s Your Duty: Kantian Ethics

8 Be Good: Virtue Ethics

9 The Moral of the Story Is . . . : Narrative Ethics

10 All You Need Is Love: Situation Ethics

11 Doing What Comes Naturally: Natural Law Ethics

12 God Said It, I Believe It, That Settles It: Divine Command Theory

13 Unraveling the Options

Notes

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.9.2011
Verlagsort	Illinois
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 227 mm
Gewicht	370 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	0-8308-3936-4 / 0830839364
ISBN-13	978-0-8308-3936-0 / 9780830839360
Zustand	Neuware