An edition of Hard choices
(2009)
Hard choices
how to resolve moral dilemmas
1st ed.
by J. Philip Wogaman
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Hard choices: how to resolve moral dilemmas
2009, Westminster John Knox Press
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: Starting points
Some decisions are easier than others
Easy decisions
More difficult decisions
Moral dilemmas
The deep basis of the moral life
Practical decision making
Why ethics is ultimately religious
Acceptable and unacceptable forms of revelation
The useful incomplete ness of religious tradition
Moral virtue and character
Intuition and deliberation in moral decision-making
The absolute and the relative in moral life
Have we become too relativistic?
The natural law approach
God as the absolute
Facts and values
Individual integrity and communal authority
The transcendent absolute
Rules and relationships
The moral burden of proof
The legal analogy
Applying the idea of "presumption" to ethical decision-making
Moral presumptions as a common starting point
Basic moral presumptions
Uses of scripture
Positive Christian value presumptions
The limits and flaws in human nature
Presumptions that preserve balance
A presumption for Scripture and tradition
When presumptions are in conflict
Part II: Applications and illustrations
Difficult personal decisions
Sexual intimacy and family life
Contraception and abortion
Choosing a spouse
Divorce
Vocational choices
The uses of our money
Political choices
Hard choices in the public arena
Abortion
Homosexuality
The dilemma of "affirmative action"
Securing economic justice
Environmental policies
Criminal justice
Uses of military power
Hard choices at the global level
International institution building
International security and policing
Nuclear disarmament
Economic globalization
Global warming
Hard choices in communities of faith.
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Includes index.
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