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Record ID marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part42.utf8:60170663:3382
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LEADER: 03382cam a22004218i 4500
001 2015017549
003 DLC
005 20150807083615.0
008 150806s2015 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2015017549
020 $a9781137536907 (hardback)
020 $a113753690X (hardback)
040 $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aQH332$b.M69 2015
082 00 $a174.2$223
084 $aPHI000000$aPHI005000$aPHI022000$aSCI010000$aSCI075000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aMoyse, Ashley John,$d1977-
245 10 $aReading Karl Barth, interrupting : moral technique, transforming biomedical ethics /$cAshley John Moyse.
263 $a1510
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c[2015]
300 $apages cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aContent and context in theological ethics
520 $a"The age of modern biomedical science has raised many difficult ethical questions. Accordingly, leaders in bioethics have articulated methods to direct the on-going discourse while providing the systems necessary for making morally efficient decisions. In this thought-provoking study, Ashley John Moyse suggests a theory of ethics that interrupts and transforms the contemporary and abstract modes of moral discourse. Moyse moves the moral discussion of bioethics beyond abstract ends, obligations, and common moral categories. At the same time, he challenges readers to take seriously the concrete moral tasks of existence. Moyse engages with Karl Barth's philosophical and theological thinking in order to investigate the moral discussions surrounding biomedical ethics. The book engagingly illuminates a path toward moral discernment that recognizes the significance of human flourishing. According to Moyse, Barth's moral theology not only grounds humans as ontologically relational but also fuels responsibility to, with, and for one's neighbors. "--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"This book explores biomedical ethics after engaging Karl Barth's theological ethics, which illumines the way for the us to exercise moral discernment that not only identifies the significance of human flourishing, but also a way for inclusive moral discourse and decisive action with and for the other. The book will describe an ethics that is not necessarily in opposition to those modes of moral discourse considered primary in bioethics; i.e., the common morality. However, as a particular theological ethics, it is deeply critical of much modern moral discourse, and constructive in its response"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: -- Introduction1. Contemporary Bioethics and the 'Sin' of the Common Morality2. The Technique of Bioethics and the Freedom for Encounter3. The Isolated Will and the Freedom for Agency4. An Anxious Institution and the Freedom for Human LifeConclusionNotesBibliography.
650 0 $aBioethics.
650 0 $aMedical ethics.
600 10 $aBarth, Karl,$d1886-1968.
650 7 $aPHILOSOPHY / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPHILOSOPHY / Religious.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSCIENCE / Biotechnology.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects.$2bisacsh