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by: Herbert McCabe
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 230
EAN: 9780826472984
ISBN: 0826472982
Label: Continuum International Publishing Group
Manufacturer: Continuum International Publishing Group
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 215
Publication Date: 2004-05
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group
Sales Rank: 457544
Studio: Continuum International Publishing Group
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Rating: - A revolutionary theological account of human life and embodiment
In the wonderful 'Law, Love and Language' Herbert McCabe shows us that ethics is about all human action and interaction, and that we are intrinsically in conversation, all our action is response to others, and this economy of response determines our environment too. There is no split here between nature and culture (between `is' and `ought'). There is no particular need to attribute anything here to Aquinas or Wittgenstein, for McCabe is simply saying that we are not disembodied beings isolated from ... Read More
Rating: - Offers an important perspective on ethics
McCabe was one of a generation of deeply intelligent, clear-headed Dominican theologians and philosophers (including Cornelius Ernst and Victor White) who published little, but had a huge influence on post-war Catholicism in England and eventually around the world. In this book (first published under the title 'What is Ethics all about), McCabe seeks to provide a coherent account of ethics as the product of a kind of judgment that has much more to do with literary criticism's insights than those of logicians ... Read More
Rating: - The best book on Christian ethics... ever!
Sick of liberals who believe "all you need is love" and conservatives who just think morality means "following God's law"? Sure there is something besides Mill and Kant? Read McCabe's utterly groundbreaking book, marginalized in 1968 (the year of Humanae Vitae), but now more vital than ever. McCabe argues that what proponents of law and proponents of "doing the most loving thing" fail to understand is how language works. McCabe then persuasively argues for the revolutionary significance of the Christian story ... Read More
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