Beyond the New Morality: The Responsibilities of Freeedom

Successfully and widely used in college ethics classes, this well-written text has in revision been made even clearer and more precise in its presentation as a result of extended classroom experience. Beyond The New Morality seeks to state clearly and simply a particular approach to ethics. The ethics here proposed seeks to put the concrete situation into the context of a whole person's life; it seeks to show how love requires a free response to human goods, a response generating responsibilities; it seeks to defend the person and the community of persons against theories and attitudes that would make of them mere objects, mere means.