In search of moral knowledge : overcoming the fact-value dichotomy /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Smith, R. Scott, 1957-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Downers Grove, Illinoise : IVP Academic, [2014]
Subjects:	Ethics, Modern > 20th century. Ethics, Modern > 21st century. Ethics > History. Postmodernism. Christian ethics. Christian philosophy. Ethical relativism. Christianity and culture.

Table of Contents:

A short history of western ethics. Christian, biblical ethics ; Ancient ethics : Plato and Aristotle on moral knowledge ; Moral knowledge from Augustine through Aquinas ; Moral knowledge in the Reformation and Enlightenment shift
Naturalism, relativism and postmodernism : understanding and assessing today's dominant moral paradigms. Options for naturalistic ethics ; Naturalism, knowledge and the fact-value split ; More modern options : ethical relativism, Rawls's political liberalism and Korsgaard's constructivism ; Introduction to the postmodern period : a plurality of different voices ; MacIntyre's recovered thomistic ethics ; Hauerwas's narrative Christian ethics ; Assessing MacIntyre's and Hauerwas's projects
Toward a theory of moral knowledge. Moral realism and addressing the crisis of (moral) knowledge ; Religiously based moral knowledge - and final issues.