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Christian Ethics and Commonsense Morality Kevin Jung

Christian Ethics and Commonsense Morality By Kevin Jung

Christian Ethics and Commonsense Morality by Kevin Jung


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This philosophically rigorous defense of moral realism from a Christian ethical perspective critiques the antirealist and naturalistic ethical theories that dismiss the idea of objectively knowable and universally valid moral truths. It seeks to reset the state of debate on ethical objectivism and subjectivism among Christian thinkers.

Christian Ethics and Commonsense Morality Summary

Christian Ethics and Commonsense Morality: An Intuitionist Account by Kevin Jung

Christian Ethics and Commonsense Morality goes against the grain of various postmodern approaches to morality in contemporary religious ethics. In this book, Jung seeks to provide a new framework in which the nature of common Christian moral beliefs and practices can be given a new meaning. He suggests that, once major philosophical assumptions behind postmodern theories of morality are called into question, we may look at Christian morality in quite a different light. On his account, Christian morality is a historical morality insofar as it is rooted in the rich historical traditions of the Christian church. Yet this kind of historical dependence does not entail the evidential dependence of all moral beliefs on historical traditions. It is possible to argue for the epistemic autonomy of moral beliefs, according to which Christian and other moral beliefs can be justified independently of their historical sources. The particularity of Christian morality lies not in its particular historical sources that also function as the grounds of justification, but rather in its explanatory and motivational capacity to further articulate the kind of moral knowledge that is readily available to most human beings and to enable people to act upon their moral knowledge.

Christian Ethics and Commonsense Morality Reviews

This work goes against the tide in a manner that is most refreshing. It shuns shallow intellectual trends in order to present a nuanced conception of morality and the possibility to know things about moral matters. This furthermore is done in a way that tears down unhelpful dichotomizations between philosophy and theology. The claims in this book are as brave as the level of argumentation is high. -Per Sundman, Uppsala University, Sweden

About Kevin Jung

Kevin Jung is Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at Wake Forest University, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Varieties of Postmodern Ethics 2. Is Foundationalism Dead? 3. Moral Realism According to Lovibond and Hauerwas 4. How to Defend Moral Realism 5. Morality of Emotion 6. Ethical Naturalism and Theological Ethics 7. Commonsense Tradition and Intuitionism 8. Intuitionism: Philosophical Issues and Replies 9. Commonsense Morality and Christian Morality. Epilogue

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NLS9781138387164
9781138387164
1138387169
Christian Ethics and Commonsense Morality: An Intuitionist Account by Kevin Jung
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2021-03-31
212
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