Finite and Infinite Goods: A Framework for Ethics / Edition 1

by Robert Merrihew Adams

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195153712
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/09/2002
Series:	Framework for Ethics
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	424
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.24(h) x 0.92(d)
Lexile:	1450L (what's this?)

About the Author

Yale University

Editorial Reviews

"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

From the Publisher

This disconserting project is unabashed Platonism and theism at its best.
—Times Literary Supplement

Charles Taliaferro