Self Love and Christian Ethics
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
New Studies in Christian Ethics
ISBN-10
0521817811
ISBN-13
9780521817813
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 17th, 2002
Print length
282 Pages
Weight
442 grams
Dimensions
21.60 x 14.00 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification:
PhilosophyChristian theologyPhilosophyChristianity
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Contemporary culture encourages self love while depriving us of the resources needed to discern what it means to love ourselves rightly. This book argues that proper self love involves truthfulness of and to the self, embodied in actions and relations, under the norms of love for God and neighbor.
Self love is an inescapable problem for ethics, yet much of contemporary ethics is reluctant to offer any normative moral anthropologies. Instead, secular ethics and contemporary culture promote a norm of self-realization which is subjective and uncritical. Christian ethics also fails to address this problem directly, because it tends to investigate self love within the context of conflicts between the self's interests and those of her neighbors. Self Love and Christian Ethics argues for right self love as the solution of proper self-relation that intersects with love for God and love for neighbor. Darlene Fozard Weaver explains that right self love entails a true self-understanding that is embodied in the person's concrete acts and relations. In making this argument, she calls upon ethicists to revisit ontological accounts of the self and to devote more attention to particular moral acts.
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