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Separated from its anchorage in religion, ethics has followed the social sciences in seeing human beings as fundamentally characterised by self-interest, so that altruism is either naively idealistic or arrogantly self-sufficient. Colin Grant contends that, as a modern secular concept, altruism is a parody on the self-giving love of Christianity, so that its dismissal represents a social levelling that loses the depths that theology makes intelligible and religion makes possible. The Christian affirmation is that God is characterised by self-giving love (agape), then expected of Christians. Lacking this theological background, the focus on self-interest in sociobiology and economics, and on human realism in the political focus of John Rawls or the feminist sociability of Carol Gilligan, finds altruism naive or a dangerous distraction from real possibilities of mutual support. This book argues that to dispense with altruism is to dispense with God and with the divine transformation of human possibilities.

Altruism --- Christian ethics --- #GBIB:CBMER --- 17.035.12 --- 241 --- Altruïsme --- Moraaltheologie. Theologische ethiek --- 17.035.12 Altruïsme --- Ethical theology --- Moral theology --- Theology, Ethical --- Theology, Moral --- Christian life --- Christian philosophy --- Religious ethics --- Altruistic behavior --- Unselfishness --- Conduct of life --- Helping behavior --- Altruism. --- Christian ethics. --- Arts and Humanities --- Religion

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This volume breaks open traditional disciplinary confines and approaches the full complexity of communicative interaction from an impressive range of exciting state-of-the-art perspectives in social psychology, conversation analysis, hermeneutics, constructivist psychology, communication theory, computational neuroscience, sociology of communication, second language pragmatics, ergonomic interaction theory and computer-mediated interaction studies. In so doing, it sets out to establish a new research agenda in which communication science is understood as a human-social science par excellence. This collection of fifteen essays by seventeen scholars from Canada, the United States, Brazil, Ireland, the Netherlands, Germany and the UK will be of interest to scholars and students in all of the above fields. The editor, Colin B. Grant, is Reader in Modern Languages in the School of Management and Languages, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, where he runs the interdisciplinary social communication science research group. He is author of Literary Communication from Consensus to Rupture (1995), Functions and Fictions of Communication (2000) and chief editor of Language-Meaning-Social Construction (2001).

Pragmatics --- Mass communications --- Communication. --- Communicatie (taalwetenschap). --- Communicatie. --- Interpersoonlijke communicatie. --- Pragmatiek. --- Verbale communicatie. --- #SBIB:309H510 --- Verbale communicatie: algemene werken --- Communication --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES --- Spanish language --- Communication Studies --- Castilian language --- Romance languages --- Phonology. --- Morphology.

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Literature --- Fictions, Theory of --- Literature and society --- Philosophy --- Fictions, Theory of. --- Literature and society. --- Philosophy. --- Literature - Philosophy