Truthfulness and tragedy : further investigations in Christian ethics / Stanley Hauerwas with Richard Bondi and David B. Burrell.

Author/creator Hauerwas, Stanley, 1940-
Other author Bondi, Richard, author.
Other author Burrell, David B., author.
Format Book
Publication InfoNotre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 1985 printing, ©1977.
Descriptionxii, 251 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Christian ethics.
Social ethics.

Contents Rationality and the Christian story: From system to story: An alternative pattern for rationality in ethics -- Obligation and virtue once more -- Natural law, tragedy and theological ethics -- Story and theology -- Self-deception and autobiography: Reflections on Speer's Inside the Third Reich -- Survival, community and the demand for truthfulness: Memory, community and the reasons for living: Reflections on suicide and euthanasia -- The moral limits of population control -- Must a patient be a person to be a patient? Or, my uncle Charlie is not much of a person but he is still my uncle Charlie -- The politics of charity -- Children, suffering, and the skill to care: Having and learning to care for retarded children -- The retarded and the criteria for the human -- Suffering, medical ethics and the retarded child -- The demands and limits of care: On the moral dilemma of neonatal intensive care -- Medicine as a tragic profession.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN0268018316
ISBN9780268018313
ISBN0268018324 (pbk.)
ISBN9780268018320

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Joyner General Stacks BJ1251 .H38 T78 1985 ✔ Available Place Hold