Rights and Christian Ethics by Kieran Cronin (English) Paperback Book

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Kieran Cronin helps philosophers and theologians to understand each other's perspectives on rights, making this book a significant contribution to Christian ethics and moral philosophy.

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Kieran Cronin aims in this book to show how a Christian perspective may have something fruitful to contribute to the language of rights. In so doing, he examines some of the complexities involved in using this language, drawing from literature in moral philosophy and jurisprudence in the process. The novelty of his approach lies in the attempt to distinguish two complementary aspects within metaethics, aspects which the author calls the 'discursive' and the 'imaginative'. Cronin regards the use of models (which are extended metaphors) as providing a bridge between these two aspects, and the imaginative metaethics which emerges is seen to be rich in possibilities for both secular and Christian understandings of rights-talk.

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Metaethics - meaning and justification; 2. Initial elucidation of rights-language; 3. Conceptual scepticism and rights; 4. Moral and theological scepticism; 5. Imagination, metaethics and rights; 6. Theological imagination and rights; 7. Rights, power and covenant; 8. Theological foundations of rights-language; Afterword: Criteria for theological/metaethical models; Index.

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Kieran Cronin helps philosophers and theologians to understand each other's perspectives on the language of rights.

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Kieran Cronin helps philosophers and theologians to understand each other's perspectives on rights, making this book a significant contribution to Christian ethics and moral philosophy.

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Kieran Cronin helps philosophers and theologians to understand each other's perspectives on rights, making this book a significant contribution to Christian ethics and moral philosophy.

Details ISBN0521092949 Author Kieran Cronin Short Title RIGHTS & CHRISTIAN ETHICS Publisher Cambridge University Press Language English ISBN-10 0521092949 ISBN-13 9780521092944 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 241.622 Series Number 1 Year 2009 Publication Date 2009-01-31 Imprint Cambridge University Press Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Pages 348 Series New Studies in Christian Ethics Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises Audience College/Higher Education UK Release Date 2009-01-08 AU Release Date 2009-01-08 NZ Release Date 2009-01-08 We've got this

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