Dirty Hands
Author | : Garth Baker-Fletcher |
Publisher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2000-05-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 1451408234 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781451408232 |
Rating | : 4/5 (232 Downloads) |
Download or read book Dirty Hands written by Garth Baker-Fletcher and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can one make the ethical and "right" decision in a deeply ambiguous moral world? Baker-Fletcher's basic introduction to Christian Ethics-with attitude-examines the fundamental ethical problems of moral decision-making, in which knowledge will always be unsure, time short, decisions ambiguous, and consequences multiple and unforseeable. Baker-Fletcher treats ethics as engagement, getting one's hand's "dirty with life." He employs a journey motif in order to aid readers in plotting their own "moralscape" (the fundamental commitments that affect their own decisions.