1. Christian Ethics in a Postmodern World
... than a fiction composed by the modern human sciences and self is no longer the ultimate source and ground for language but rather constituted in and through language (Grenz 1996: 130). Ethics and morality have been denigrated into the cynic irony "might makes right- (Welch 1985: 88). For Foucault the greatest good is an individual's freedom to maximize pleasure and all social ... is not required to reach the Cartesian certitude that "no reasonable person could possibly doubt,"" but the platitudinous agreement that "no reasonable person would even think to doubt- (Peirce 1958: 39-40). Th...
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