Finite and Infinite Goods: A Framework for Ethics - Softcover

Adams, Robert Merrihew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195153715 ISBN 13: 9780195153712

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2002

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert Merrihew Adams is at Yale University.

Review:

"Finite and Infinite Goods is a work that every Christian philosopher and theologian concerned with ethics simply must read. It has been a long time since I have read a book with such a bold and original vision, coupled with careful argument and insightful reflection on particular problems and issues."--Books & Culture

"...one of the two most important books in moral philosophy of the last quarter century, the other being After Virtue."--Theology Today

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0195153715
• ISBN 13: 9780195153712
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 424