Contemporary Ethical Issues
Subtitle: A Personalistic Perspective
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Humanity Books
Published: August 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9781573926416
Subjects: Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Personalism; Contemporary Ethics; Social Science; Philosophy; Ethical problems; General; 1891-; Macmurray, John,
First sentence: The fundamental proposition of a personalistic anthropology is contained in John Macmurray's stark statement: "We are not organisms, but persons."
Description: "Contemporary Ethical Issues explores a series of contemporary moral-problems from a personalistic perspective influenced by the Scottish philosopher John Macmurray (1891-1976). In many books, articles, and pamphlets spanning fifty years, most notably his Gifford Lectures, "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 community. Walter G.

Jeffko utilizes key elements of Macmurray's thought in developing his own viewpoint, and he relates Macmurray's ideas to those of a wide variety of important philosophers, ethicists, and behavioral scientists."--BOOK JACKET.