Steve Wilkens

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  Beyond Bumper Sticker Ethics (Expanded)

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  Preface And Acknowledgments
  1. Bumper Stickers And Ethical Systems
  2. When In Rome, Do As The Romans Do: Cultural Relativism
  3. Look Out For Number One: Ethical Egoism
  4. I Couldn’t Help Myself: Behaviorism
  5. Survival Of The (Ethical) Fittest: Evolutionary Ethics
  6. The Greatest Happiness: Utilitarianism
  7. It’s Your Duty: Kantian Ethics
  8. Be Good: Virtue Ethics
  9. The Moral Of The Story Is . . . : Narrative Ethics
  10. All You Need Is Love: Situation Ethics
  11. Doing What Comes Naturally: Natural Law Ethics
  12. God Said It, I Believe It, That Settles It: Divine Command Theory
  13. Unraveling The Options
  Notes

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  Ideas have consequences. And sometimes those ideas can be squeezed in to slogans, slapped on bumper stickers and tweeted into cyberspace. These compact messages coming at us from all directions often compress in a few words entire ethical systems. It turns out that there’s a lot more to the ideas behind these slogans–ideas that need to be sorted out before we make important moral decisions as individuals or as societies.

  In this revised and expanded edition of Steve Wilkens’s widely-used text, the author has updated his introductions to basic ethical systems:

  cultural relativism
  ethical egoism
  utilitarianism
  behaviorism
  situation ethics
  Kantian ethics
  virtue ethics
  natural law ethics
  divine command theory

  He has also added two new chapters:

  evolutionary ethics
  narrative ethics

  With clarity and wit Wilkens unpacks the complicated ideas behind the slogans and offers Christian evaluations of each.

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  Good Ideas From Questionable Christians And Outright Pagans

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  Wilkens provides a convincing rationale for why Christians should study philosophy by examining an important issue from the perspective of the following philosophers: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Descartes, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, and Sartre. Although some Christians tend to view the faith of the above philosophers as questionable at best and non-existent at worst, Wilkens finds that many of their ideas can enhance Christian faith and yield valuable theological insight. In providing this accessible introduction to some of the key ideas and thinkers in philosophy, Wilkens finds strong grounds for living “the examined life” (playing off the famous quote by Socrates), urging Christians to engage in philosophical reflection, which can strengthen one’s faith and deepen one’s sense of wonder with the world God created.

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