Contemporary Ethical Issues
A Personalist Perspective (Fourth Edition)
WALTER G. JEFFKO(Author)
Prometheus Books (Publisher)
Published on 11. June 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
480 pages
978-1-61614-731-0 (ISBN)
Description
Now in a newly revised third edition, this explores a series of compelling moral problems from a personalist perspective influenced by the Scottish philosopher John Macmurray (1891-1976). In many publications spanning fifty years, most notably his Gifford Lectures titled ""The Form of the Personal,"" Macmurray developed a robust personalism that emphasizes the primacy of persons as rational agents. In his iew, self-realization is achieved in community where justice and individual rights are respected. From the background of a liberal Roman Catholic, Walter G. Jeffko utilizes key elements of Macmurray's thought in developing his own philosophical viewpoint, and he relates Macmurray's ideas to those of a wide variety of important philosophers, ethicists, and other notable thinkers, including ecologists and war theorists. New to this third edition is an essay on the moral treatment of civilians in war, including a rigorous critique of Michael Walzer's ""supreme emergency"" and the communitarianism that grounds it. Many recent Supreme Court decisions are evaluated, as is the threat to our democracy posed by unlimited sums of money in politics, the growing inequality of wealth and inc
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
560 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61614-731-0 (9781616147310)
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Walter G. Jeffko (Fitchburg, MA) is professor of philosophy at Fitchburg State College, where he has received a Presidential Award and three Distinguished Service Awards for outstanding achievement. He is a recognized authority on the philosophy of John Macmurray.