Finite and Infinite Goods
A Framework for Ethics
1st Edition
Published on 29. July 1999
425 pages
978-0-19-802947-2 (ISBN)
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Renowned scholar Robert Adams explores the relation between religion and ethics through a comprehensive philosophical account of a theistically-based framework for ethics. Adams' framework begins with the good rather than the right, and with excellence rather than usefulness. He argues that loving the excellent, of which adoring God is a clear example, is the most fundamental aspect of a life well lived. Developing his original and detailed theory, Adams contends that devotion, the sacred, grace, martyrdom, worship, vocation, faith, and other concepts drawn from religious ethics have been sorely overlooked in moral philosophy and can enrich the texture of ethical thought.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- I: THE NATURE OF THE GOOD
- 1 God as the Good
- 1. The Semantics and the Metaphysics of Value
- 2. Eros and the Good
- 3. Godlikeness
- 4. Varieties of Excellence
- 5. The Divine Nature
- 2 The Transcendence of the Good
- 1. The Holy
- 2. Naturalism
- 3. Empirical Testing, Explanation, and Value
- 4. Transcendence Vindicated
- 3 Well-Being and Excellence
- 1. Well-Being and the Satisfaction of Desire
- 2. Well-Being as Enjoyment of the Excellent
- 4 The Sacred and the Bad
- 1. The Bad
- 2. Moral Horror
- 3. Violation
- 4. Images of God
- 5. The Value of Persons as Persons
- 6. Ontology
- 7. Defilement and Symbolic Violation
- II: LOVING THE GOOD
- 5 Eros
- 1. Can God Love Finite Things at All?
- 2. Benevolence and Self-Interest
- 3. Eros and Self-Interest
- 4. The Value of Love's Interest in Relationship
- 5. Impersonal Objects of Love
- 6 Grace
- 1. Love's Particularity
- 2. Love for Particular Universals
- 3. Reasons for Love
- 4. Hesed
- 5. Love's Universality
- 7 Devotion
- 1. The Ethics of Motives
- 2. The Fragmentation of Value
- 3. The Integration of Value
- 4. The Problem of Total Devotion
- 5. Love for the Good as Organizing Principle
- 6. Love as Enjoyment
- 7. Love as Alliance
- 8 Idolatry
- 1. Priorities
- 2. Need and Detachment
- 3. Misidentification
- 9 Symbolic Value
- 1. Martyrdom
- 2. The Moral Value of Symbolism
- 3. Eschatology and Ethics
- 4. Worship
- III: THE GOOD AND THE RIGHT
- 10 Obligation
- 1. Sanctions and the Semantics of Obligation
- 2. Guilt
- 3. Social Requirement
- 11 Divine Commands
- 1. Placing the Theory in Its Context
- 2. Divine Commands and the Role of Obligation
- 3. Divine Command and Divine Will
- 4. What Is a Divine Command?
- 5. Autonomy
- 12 Abraham's Dilemma
- 1. The Dilemma Stated
- 2. Can It Be Wrong to Obey God?
- 3. What Should We Believe about God's Commands?
- 13 Vocation
- 1. Singular Judgments in Ethics
- 2. A Conception of Vocation
- 3. Actuality and Goodness
- 4. Vocation and Selfhood
- 5. Vocation and Conflicting Values
- 14 Politics and the Good
- 1. Perfectionism and Equality
- 2. Civil Liberties
- 3. Church, State, and Culture
- 4. State Action to Protect and Promote the Good
- IV: THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF VALUE
- 15 Revelation of the Good
- 1. The Metaphysics and the Epistemology of Value
- 2. Evaluative Doxastic Practices
- 3. General Revelation
- 4. Special Revelation, Experience, and Change in Ethics
- 16 Moral Faith
- 1. Faith in Morality
- 2. Faith in Moral Ends
- 3. The Cognitive Aspect of Moral Faith
- 4. The Volitional Aspect of Moral Faith
- 5. The Emotional Aspect of Moral Faith
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
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- F
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