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• catalog abstract "This book is about the gap between the moral demand on us and our natural capacities to meet it. John Hare starts with Kant's statement of the moral demand and his acknowledgement of this gap. Hare then analyses Kant's use of the resources of the Christian tradition to make sense of this gap, especially the notions of revelation, providence, and God's grace. Kant reflects the traditional way of making sense of the gap, which is to invoke God's assistance in bridging it. Hare goes on to examine various contemporary philosophers who do not use these resources. He considers three main strategies: exaggerating our natural capacities, diminishing the moral demand, and finding some naturalistic substitute for God's assistance. He argues that these strategies do not work, and that we are therefore left with the gap and with the problem that it is unreasonable to demand of ourselves a standard which we cannot reach. In the final section of the book, Hare looks in more detail at the Christian doctrines of atonement, justification, and sanctification. He discusses Kierkegaard's account of the relation between the ethical life and the Christian life, and ends by considering human forgiveness, and the ways in which God's forgiveness is both like and unlike our forgiveness of each other. The book is intended for those interested in both ethical theory and Christian theology.".
• catalog contributor b9098354.
• catalog created "1996.".
• catalog date "1996".
• catalog date "1996.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [276]-285) and indexes.".
• catalog description "TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Kantian ethics -- Kant and the moral demand -- Kant's ethical theory -- A contemporary Kantian -- The Christian seriousness of Kant -- God's supplement -- Revelation -- Kant's account of God's work on our behalf -- Kant's failure -- Moral faith -- What is the highest good? -- Is the highest good coherent? -- The idea of self-rewarding morality -- The highest good in the less ambitious sense -- The antithesis -- Moral faith -- Human limits -- Puffing up the capacity -- Utilitarianism and the moral demand -- A utilitarian reply -- The trouble with optimism -- The optimist's response -- The final word -- Centrality -- The objection -- The minimalist view -- The naturalist view -- The rationalist view -- Reducing the demand -- Four feminist objectives -- A fifth objective -- The moral demand is not reduced -- Substitutes for God's assistance -- Social evolution -- The machinery of the rational bargain -- Evolution and the moral emotions -- God's assistance -- Repentance -- The ethical life -- The religious life -- Forgiveness -- The burden of the past -- Undoing the past -- Forgiveness and mutuality -- The offender's position -- The victim's position -- God's assistance -- Atonement -- Justification -- Sanctification.".
• catalog description "This book is about the gap between the moral demand on us and our natural capacities to meet it. John Hare starts with Kant's statement of the moral demand and his acknowledgement of this gap. Hare then analyses Kant's use of the resources of the Christian tradition to make sense of this gap, especially the notions of revelation, providence, and God's grace. Kant reflects the traditional way of making sense of the gap, which is to invoke God's assistance in bridging it. Hare goes on to examine various contemporary philosophers who do not use these resources. He considers three main strategies: exaggerating our natural capacities, diminishing the moral demand, and finding some naturalistic substitute for God's assistance. He argues that these strategies do not work, and that we are therefore left with the gap and with the problem that it is unreasonable to demand of ourselves a standard which we cannot reach. In the final section of the book, Hare looks in more detail at the Christian doctrines of atonement, justification, and sanctification. He discusses Kierkegaard's account of the relation between the ethical life and the Christian life, and ends by considering human forgiveness, and the ways in which God's forgiveness is both like and unlike our forgiveness of each other. The book is intended for those interested in both ethical theory and Christian theology.".
• catalog extent "x, 292 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Moral gap.".
• catalog identifier "0198263813 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Moral gap.".
• catalog isPartOf "Oxford studies in theological ethics".
• catalog issued "1996".
• catalog issued "1996.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
• catalog relation "Moral gap.".
• catalog subject "241 20".
• catalog subject "Apologetics.".
• catalog subject "BJ1275 .H24 1996".
• catalog subject "Christian ethics.".
• catalog subject "Ethics, Modern.".
• catalog subject "Grace (Theology)".
• catalog subject "Human beings.".
• catalog subject "Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804 Ethics.".
• catalog subject "Theological anthropology Christianity.".
• catalog tableOfContents "TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Kantian ethics -- Kant and the moral demand -- Kant's ethical theory -- A contemporary Kantian -- The Christian seriousness of Kant -- God's supplement -- Revelation -- Kant's account of God's work on our behalf -- Kant's failure -- Moral faith -- What is the highest good? -- Is the highest good coherent? -- The idea of self-rewarding morality -- The highest good in the less ambitious sense -- The antithesis -- Moral faith -- Human limits -- Puffing up the capacity -- Utilitarianism and the moral demand -- A utilitarian reply -- The trouble with optimism -- The optimist's response -- The final word -- Centrality -- The objection -- The minimalist view -- The naturalist view -- The rationalist view -- Reducing the demand -- Four feminist objectives -- A fifth objective -- The moral demand is not reduced -- Substitutes for God's assistance -- Social evolution -- The machinery of the rational bargain -- Evolution and the moral emotions -- God's assistance -- Repentance -- The ethical life -- The religious life -- Forgiveness -- The burden of the past -- Undoing the past -- Forgiveness and mutuality -- The offender's position -- The victim's position -- God's assistance -- Atonement -- Justification -- Sanctification.".
• catalog title "The moral gap : Kantian ethics, human limits, and God's assistance / John E. Hare.".
• catalog type "text".