Finite and Infinite Goods A Framework for Ethics

Name: Finite and Infinite Goods A Framework for Ethics
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ISBN: 9780195153712

ISBN-10: 0195153715

ISBN-13: 9780195153712

Edition: 1999

Authors: Robert Merrihew Adams

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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, thesacred, 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.

Book details

List price: $80.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/9/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 424
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.10" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Robert Merrihew Adams is Clark Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, Yale University.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Nature of the Good



God as the Good



The Transcendence of the Good



Well-Being and Excellence



The Sacred and the Bad



Loving the Good



Eros



Grace



Devotion



Idolatry



Symbolic Value



The Good and the Right



Obligation



Divine Commands



Abraham's Dilemma



Vocation



Politics and the Good



The Epistemology of Value



Revelation of the Good



Moral Faith


Bibliography


Index