
In Search of Moral Knowledge
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One: A Short History of Western Ethics
- 1 Christian, Biblical Ethics
- Old Testament Ethics
- New Testament Ethics
- A Few Preliminary Issues with and Objections to Biblical Ethics
- Conclusion
- 2 Ancient Ethics
- Plato
- Aristotle
- 3 Moral Knowledge from Augustine Through Aquinas
- Augustine
- Islamic Ethics
- The Jewish Ethics of Maimonides
- Aquinas
- 4 Moral Knowledge in the Reformation and the Enlightenment Shift
- The Reformation Shift: Luther and Calvin
- The Shift into the Enlightenment: Hobbes Through Mill
- The Enlightenment's Legacy
- Part Two: Naturalism, Relativism and Postmodernism
- 5 Options for Naturalistic Ethics
- Introduction
- Naturalism as a Worldview
- Naturalism and Metaethics
- Human Dignity, Meaning and Purpose
- The Next Step
- 6 Naturalism, Knowledge and the Fact-Value Split
- Introduction and Implications for the Fact-Value Dichotomy
- Dennett's Proposal
- Assessing Dennett's Proposal
- Implications
- 7 More Modern Options
- Ethical Relativism
- John Rawls's Political Liberalism12
- Korsgaard's Kantian Constructivism
- Conclusion
- 8 Introduction to the Postmodern Period
- Introduction
- The First Thread: Attitudes and the Current Mindset
- The Second Thread: Philosophical Turns
- Bev Harrison's Feminist Moral Theology
- Gustavo Gutiérrez's Liberation Theology
- Jürgen Habermas
- Jeffrey Stout
- 9 MacIntyre's Recovered Thomistic Ethics
- MacIntyre's Virtue Ethics
- Modifying Aristotle and Aquinas
- MacIntyre's Use of Wittgenstein and His Views of Language
- Our Access to Reality
- MacIntyre's Account of Rationality as Tradition-Dependent
- 10 Hauerwas's Narrative Christian Ethics
- The Contemporary Problem: Liberalism and Enlightenment Ethics
- Hauerwas's Prescription: From Theory to Praxis
- Language and Community
- The Moral Self Formed by Language
- Narrative and Stories
- Hauerwas's Context: The Christian Community
- The Importance of the Practice of Witness
- Truth and Truthful Living
- Testing the Truthfulness of Christian Lives
- Translating the Christian Story or Training in It?
- Salvation and Conversion
- The Church Is a Social Ethic
- Relativism?
- Conclusions
- 11 Assessing MacIntyre's and Hauerwas's Projects
- Exploring Possible Relationship(s) Between My "Old" and "New" Interpretations
- The First Issue: What Are We Experiencing If There Is No Direct Acquaintance?
- A Second Issue: How Does a Language Get Started?
- Third Issue: The Narrative Unity of the Self
- Fourth Issue: Language Learning and Seeing the Rational Superiority of Another Tradition
- Conclusion
- Part Three: Toward a Theory of Moral Knowledge
- 12 Moral Realism and Addressing the Crisis of (Moral) Knowledge
- A Few Preliminary Cases of Knowledge
- How We Know Reality-Some Further Case Studies
- The Theoretical Explanation
- The Necessary Ontology for Knowledge
- The Nature of Morals
- Moral Realism and Moral Knowledge
- Implications
- 13 Religiously Based Moral Knowledge-and Final Issues
- A Cumulative Case for Knowledge of Religious Truth
- Moral Knowledge from Religious Sources
- Two Objections from Evil
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Christian, Biblical Ethics
- Chapter 2: Ancient Ethics
- Chapter 3: Moral Knowledge from Augustine through Aquinas
- Chapter 4: Moral Knowledge in the Reformation and the Enlightenment Shift
- Chapter 5: Options for Naturalistic Ethics
- Chapter 6: Naturalism, Knowlege and the Fact-Value Split
- Chapter 7: More Modern Options
- Chapter 8: Introduction to the Postmodern Period
- Chapter 9: MacInyre's Recovered Thomistic Ethics
- Chapter 10: Hauerwas's Narrative Christian Ethics
- Chapter 11: Assessing MacInyre's and Hauerwas's Projects
- Chapter 12: Moral Realism and Addressing the Crisis of (Moral) Knowledge
- Chapter 13: Religiously Based Moral Knowledge-and Final Issues
- Index
- Praise for In Search of Moral Knowledge
- About the Author
- More Titles from InterVarsity Press
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