In Search of Moral Knowledge: Overcoming the Fact-Value Dichotomy

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For most of the church's history, people have seen Christian ethics as normative and universally applicable. Recently, however, this view has been lost, thanks to naturalism and relativism. R. Scott Smith argues that Christians need to overcome Kant's fact-value dichotomy and recover the possibility of genuine moral and theological knowledge. Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: A Short History of Western Ethics 1 Christian, Biblical Ethics 2 Ancient Ethics 3 Moral Knowledge from Augustine Through Aquinas 4 Moral Knowledge in the Reformation and the Enlightenment Shift Part Two: Naturalism, Relativism and Postmodernism 5 Options for Naturalistic Ethics 6 Naturalism, Knowledge and the Fact-Value Split 7 More Modern Options 8 Introduction to the Postmodern Period 9 MacIntyre’s Recovered Thomistic Ethics 10 Hauerwas’s Narrative Christian Ethics 11 Assessing MacIntyre’s and Hauerwas’s Projects Part Three: Toward a Theory of Moral Knowledge 12 Moral Realism and Addressing the Crisis of (Moral) Knowledge 13 Religiously Based Moral Knowledge—and Final Issues Index Praise for In Search of Moral Knowledge About the Author More Titles from InterVarsity Press