Beyond the Pale

by Floyd-thomas, Stacey M.; De LA Torre, Miguel A.

• ISBN13: 9780664236809
• ISBN10: 0664236804
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-09-02
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Pr

Summary

How should Augustine, Plato, Calvin, Kant, Nietzsche, and Bonhoeffer be read today, in light of postcolonial theory and twenty-first-century understandings? This book offers a reader-friendly introduction to Christian liberationist ethics by having scholars "from the margins" explore how questions of race and gender should be brought to bear on twenty-four classic ethicists and philosophers. Each short chapter gives historical background for the thinker, describes that thinker's most important contributions, then raises issues of concern for women and persons of color. Contributors include George (Tink) Tinker, Asante U. Todd, Traci West, Darryl Trimiew, Ada Mar#xED;a Isasi-D#xED;az, Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, and many others.

Author Biography

Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas is Associate Professor of Ethics and Society at the Divinity School of Vanderbilt University and author or editor of several books, including Mining the Motherlode and Deeper Shades of Purple. She is the Executive Director of the Society of Christian Ethics. Miguel A. De La Torre is Professor of Social Ethics and Latino/a Studies at Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado, and the author or editor of more than twenty-five books. He is the 2012 President of the Society of Christian Ethics.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. xi
Preface and Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Introduction	p. xix
Philosophical Tradition
Plato on Reason	p. 3
Aristotle on Politics	p. 15
Augustine on Just War	p. 25
Thomas Aquinas on Servitude	p. 33
Thomas Hobbes on Human Nature	p. 41
John Locke on Property	p. 49
Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Order	p. 61
Immanuel Kant on Categorical Imperative	p. 69
John Stuart Mill on Utilitarianism	p. 81
Friedrich Nietzsche on Will to Power	p. 91
Michel Foucault on Power	p. 99
Social Tradition
Walter Rauschenbusch on Society	p. 111
Reinhold Niebuhr on Realism	p. 119
H. Richard Niebuhr on Responsibility	p. 129
Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Discipleship	p. 137
John Rawls on Justice	p. 145
James M. Gustafson on Virtue	p. 153
Paul Ramsey on Social Order	p. 161
Alasdair Maclntyre on After Virtue	p. 169
Joseph Fletcher on Situation	p. 181
Michael Novak on Capitalism	p. 189
John Howard Yoder on Pacifism	p. 199
Richard Mouw on Divine Command	p. 209
Stanley Hauerwas on Church	p. 217
Bibliography	p. 225
Index	p. 237
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