1st Edition
Putting Others First The Christian Ideal of Others-Centeredness
By T. Ryan Byerly
Copyright 2019
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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When deciding what to do, is it best to treat one’s own interests as more important than the interests of others, others’ interests as more important than one’s own, or one’s own and others’ interests as equally important? This book develops an account of others-centeredness, a way of putting others first in the process of deciding what to do. Over the course of six chapters, Putting Others... Read more
1. Putting Others First as the Character Trait of Others-Centeredness
2. Others-Centeredness in the New Testament
3. Others-Centeredness as a Moral Ideal
4. Objections to Others-Centeredness
5. Others-Centeredness, Vice, and Virtue
6. The Science of Others-Centeredness
Biography
T. Ryan Byerly is Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at the University of Sheffield, with research interests in philosophy of religion and virtue theory. His previous books include the volume Paradise Understood: New Philosophical Essays about Heaven and a monograph The Mechanics of Divine Foreknowledge and Providence: A Time-Ordering Account.
