PDF-(READ)-Truthfulness and Tragedy: Further Investigations in Christian Ethics

In Truthfulness and Tragedy Stanley Hauerwas provides an account of moral existence and ethical rationality that shows how Christian convictions operate or should operate to form and direct lives In attempting to conceptualize the basis of Christian ethics in a manner that will render Christian convictions morally intelligible the author casts fresh light on traditional theoretical issues and articulates the distinctive Christian response to contemporary concerns such as suicide medical ethics and child care The first section of the book deals with methodological issues the meaning and nature of practical reason obligation claims natural law and self deception and the affinity of story and ethics It focuses on the relation of truthfulness and tragedy and the need for a storya set of religious convictions or grammar of theologythat does justice to the tragic character of human existence The second section addresses substantive issues suicide euthanasia and the value of survival the moral limits of population growth the definition of person for medical reasons and social involvement and Christian ethics The overall theme is the need for a community in which truthfulness is a way of life In the final section devoted to the problem of how to care for retarded children the implications of the authors ethical position are given concrete expression He discusses the assumptions underlying the willingness to have children criteria for humanness medical ethics and how truthful communities deal with suffering In Truthfulness and Tragedy Stanley Hauerwas extends and clarifies the ethical position set forth in his earlier books Character and the Christian Life and Vision and Virtue He is associate professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame He was a senior fellow in Christian medical ethics at the Joseph and Rose Kennedy Institute for the Study of Reproduction and Bioethics and taught medical ethics at the University of Texas medical branch in Galveston. 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Pruss examines romantic love as distinguished from other kinds of love by a focus on a particular kind of union, a deep union as one body achieved through the joint biological striving of the sort involved in reproduction. Taking the account of the union that romantic love seeks as a foundation, the book considers the nature of marriage and applies its account to controversial ethical questions, such as the connection between love, sex, and commitment and the moral issues involving contraception, same-sex activity, and reproductive technology. With philosophical rigor and sophistication, Pruss provides carefully argued answers to controversial questions in Christian sexual ethics. This is a terrific—really quite extraordinary—work of scholarship. It is quite simply the best work on Christian sexual ethics that I have seen. It will become the text that anyone who ventures into the field will have to grapple with—a kind of touchstone. 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