About this title: Rae's "Moral Choices" helps readers navigate the rough waters of today's ethical dilemmas, assisting them in making decisions and judging right from wrong, both as individuals in terms of society. He explores such issues as abortion, reproductive technologies, euthanasia, capital punishment, war and sexuality. Includes a chapter on genetic ...
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Description: Good. 0310230152 TITLE: Moral Choices (2nd Ed)AUTHOR: Rae, ScottISBN 10: 0310230152ISBN 13: 9780310230151BINDING: Hardback without Dust JacketPUBLICATION DATE: 2000PAGES: 281DESCRIPTION: Used book in good or better condition. read more
Binding: Illustrated Hardcover
Publisher: Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780310200130ISBN:031020013X
Description: Very Good. Ethics. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. The foundations in ethics and the application of those foundations to the most pressing moral issues of the day. Believing that morality ultimately issues from the character of God, author gives a synthesis of the main parameters of biblical ethics. 253 pages. Clean text, sound binding. Solid hardcover. Contact Steels for more Ethics titles. Selling Christian books for 30 years. read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: ZONDERVAN PUB HOUSE
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780310230151ISBN:0310230152
Description: New. Moral Choices helps college students form a sound basis for making ethical decisions in today's complex postmodern culture. This book grounds students in both the theory of ethics and its application to today's pressing social issues. Avoiding undue... read more
"Moral Choices is a decent introduction to ethics. The author, I think, leaves out much that should be included in an introduction to ethics. Perhaps too much was attempted in such a short space? Rae tackles such topics as Christian ethics, history of ethics, disparate ethical systems, and ethical decision making - and this in just under half the book! The second half of the book isn't so much an introduction to ethics as it is a hands on foray into discussing putative contemporary moral issues vis-à-vis applying some of the theoretical insights gained in the first half of the book. That is, the second half of the book is a course in applied ethics. Thus like bird shot, the spread is decent but the penetration is weak.
Rae, like many of his colleagues (both current and former) at Talbot, is a Thomist (as he is also in his view of body and soul, cf. Body & Soul: Human Nature & the Crisis in Ethics by Moreland and Rae, IVP, 2000). This should provide the attentive reader of this review (if there are any - readers, not attentive readers, that is!) insight into how Rae will handle the contemporary ethical issues. He seems partial to Thomistic Natural Law ethics (and that should be read pejoratively). For example, the law of double effect will be employed in trying to find out how to handle the contemporary ethical issues.
Despite these comments, the book is worth the time spent reading it. There is much to be gleaned from Rae's discussions on the contemporary ethical issues. Rae's specialty is in bio-ethics and medical ethics (he serves as a consultant on a hospital's ethics board). He also makes the interesting (and right, in my opinion) claim that in Christian ethics, character is logically prior to deontology. This is to invoke the long-standing Christian claim that God's commands are fixed by his nature, and thus he cannot arbitrarily will any action as right (say, molesting children for fun). Rae also claims the Christianity is primarily a deontological system, but it is also concerned with character. That is, the Bible seems most concerned with right action, or laws. Depending on how "primarily" is to be understood, I would disagree. I would follow someone like John Frame in his (soon to be released) Doctrine of the Christian Life in that the a Christian ethic will place equal emphasis on norm (deontology), situation (consequences), and subject (this would include character and virtue). But Rae's point was not developed, and so my digression may be relevant or not (and, my digression wasn't developed either!).
At the end of the day, I'd recommend Rae's book. But it definitely should be supplemented by primary sources (his critiques of the secular ethical theories are a bit thin), and other introductory texts."
This is an excellent book on ethics and social issues: abortion, death penalty, etc... One of the top five courses I took in seminary, taught by the author of this book."
"I book that helps a Christian think through ethically issues more reasonably and biblically. It covers all your hot topics: abortion, euthansia, reproduction, homosexuality, legislating morality, etc."
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