Contemporary Ethical Issues
Subtitle: A Personal Perspective
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Humanity Books
Published: December 31, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9781591025702
Subjects: Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Philosophy; Ethical problems; Personalism
Description: "This second edition of Contemporary Ethical Issues explores a series of compelling moral problems from a personalistic perspective influenced by the Scottish philosopher John Macmurray (1891-1976). In his many books, articles, and other pamphlets spanning fifty years, most notably his Gifford Lectures titled "The Form of the Personal," Macmurray developed a robust personalism that emphasizes the primacy of persons as rational agents whose self-realization is achieved in a loving community where justice and individual rights are respected. Walter G. Jeffko utilizes key elements of Macmurray's thought in developing his own philosophical viewpoint; and he relates Macmurray's ideas to those of a wide variety of important philosophers, ethicists, and other notable thinkers, including ecologists."--Jacket.