CONSCIENCE
ACROSS
BORDERS:
An
Ethics of Global Rights
and
Religious Pluralism
Association
of
201pp.,
Endnotes, Index
ISBN
0-9664059-2-7
Paperback,
$15.95
In
the ground-view cover photo by Corwin a
What are the basic steps for reaching a sound moral decision? How close is the link between doing good
and being good? Should the moral
and religious be interwoven dimensions of life or separated into two distinct
realms? Do the demands of a mature
conscience supersede the claims of civil law and even the revealed divine
command? On vital issues of peace,
ecology, and human rights, do the divergent major world religions share a
moral consensus? Immersed in a
climate of post modernity and relativity how can anyone be certain about what
is right? These are the main questions
addressed by Conscience Across Borders.
The book aims to map a middle course
between an ethics of over-confident deductive reasoning, and an ethics of
relativism that treats moral choices as mostly idiosyncratic preferences. It dismantles all rationales for domineering
— including one religious Way by another, the voiceless poor by the rich,
society by the nation-state, individuals by civil and religious bureaucracies,
women by men, the young by their elders, or the natural world by human beings.
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