Can Agape be Universalized?
Most philosophers believe that for a moral principle to be valid one must be able to allow others to follow the same principle. There is a question whether the principle of "agape" which enjoins placing the good of others above one's own can meet this test. The author argues that a qu...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
1978
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Journal of religious ethics
Year: 1978, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 19-31 |
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Summary: | Most philosophers believe that for a moral principle to be valid one must be able to allow others to follow the same principle. There is a question whether the principle of "agape" which enjoins placing the good of others above one's own can meet this test. The author argues that a qualified form of agapism can meet this test, and that the test in fact provides a means of arriving at an acceptable form of the ethics of love. It also provides a way of justifying some of the qualifications that some agapists have placed on the love principle. |
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ISSN: | 1467-9795 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics
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