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Conscience Across Borders
Vernon Ruland
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Description for Conscience Across Borders
Paperback. In a postmodern world characterized by cultural relativism, what does it mean to make an ethical decision? What is the link between doing good and being good? The author outlines a new kind of individual ethics - one rooted in values of self-worth, responsiveness to others that takes a middle ground between the universalism and relativism. Num Pages: 201 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPQ; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372.
In a postmodern world characterized by cultural relativism, what does it mean to make an ethical decision? What is the link between doing good and being good? Is there a moral consensus among world religions on such issues as peace, human rights, and ecology? Should the moral and religious spheres be separated in civil society?
In a postmodern world characterized by cultural relativism, what does it mean to make an ethical decision? What is the link between doing good and being good? Is there a moral consensus among world religions on such issues as peace, human rights, and ecology? Should the moral and religious spheres be separated in civil society?
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
201
Condition
New
Number of Pages
201
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780966405927
SKU
V9780966405927
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About Vernon Ruland
Vernon Ruland, S.J., teaches at the University of San Francisco. His books include Sacred Lies and Silences: A Psychology of Religious Disguise and Imagining the Sacred: Soundings in World Religions, awarded the National Jesuit Book Award.
Reviews for Conscience Across Borders
Ruland offers what he proposes: an 'ethics of loyal scrutiny' that deserves a wide and appreciative readership.
-—William O'Neill, America
-—William O'Neill, America