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is an interesting and ambitious attempt to understand all defensible
morality in terms of what Kellenberger calls relationship morality.
As such it provides a thread for hanging together central moral concepts
and integrates philosophical and religious ethics in an engaging and
readable way."—Rita C. Manning, author of Speaking from the
Heart: A Feminist Perspective on Ethics
"This is an important and original book. No one interested in the
deep questions of morality can fail to be engaged by it."—John
Kekes, author of The Morality of Pluralism
This book is an inquiry into the extent to which human relationships
are foundational in morality. J. Kellenberger seeks to discover,
first, how relationships between persons, and ultimately the relationship
that each person has to each person by virtue of being a person,
underlie the various traditional components of morality—obligation,
virtue, justice, rights, and moral goods—and, second, how relationship
morality is more fully consonant with our moral experience than
other forms of human morality.
Kellenberger traces the implications of relationship morality for
an understanding of religious duty to God and for the status of
our obligations to animals. He also examines issues relating to
a feminist "ethics of caring." While this book is a work in ethics,
its approach is not limited to an examination of theories of obligation,
such as utilitarianism, nor is it limited to the traditional areas
covered by wider philosophical treatments of ethics. It embraces
these but examines such moral categories as love, respect for persons,
shame, and their place in morality. |
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