In Search of the Common Good: Guideposts for Concerned Citizens

In Search of the Common Good: Guideposts for Concerned Citizens

by Jack Brush
In Search of the Common Good: Guideposts for Concerned Citizens

In Search of the Common Good: Guideposts for Concerned Citizens

by Jack Brush

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Overview

In Search of the Common Good: Guideposts for Concerned Citizens is a sequel to the author’s book Citizens of the Broken Compass: Ethical and Religious Disorientation in the Age of Technology. As the title indicates, the work is not addressed to an academic audience, but rather to a general readership, i.e. to concerned citizens who are interested in thinking through some of the ethical and moral issues facing us today. Still, the book is not a work on ethics or even on morality in the strict sense, but rather an attempt to locate certain guideposts for thinking about the common good in society. The basic theme of the entire book is this: Concern for the common good should be the context in which individual human rights are interpreted.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781785352911
Publisher: Collective Ink
Publication date: 05/27/2016
Pages: 144
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Prof. Dr. Jack E. Brush holds degrees in Engineering (B.E., Vanderbilt University), Divinity (M.Div., Vanderbilt University), Philosophy (M.A., Vanderbilt University) and Theology (PhD, University of Zurich, Switzerland). He was a Postdoctoral Scholar at Harvard University, and until his retirement in 2010, he was Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. His publications include a three-volume series in German on the relationship between science and religion.

Table of Contents

Preface vi

Introduction vii

Chapter 1 The Eclipse of Power and Loss of Moral Authority 1

Chapter 2 Divine Law, Natural Law and the Laws of Nature 11

Chapter 3 Overcoming Relativism 35

Chapter 4 The Self and the Restoration of Natural Law 49

Chapter 5 Natural Law in Society 77

Chapter 6 Natural Right, Human Rights and the Common Good 93

Chapter 7 Natural Law and Moral Guideposts 107

References 131

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