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Choosing the Good: Christian Ethics in a Complex World begins with a survey of the ethical approaches that have been adopted by secular and Christian ethicists. Beyond the common consequentialist and principle-oriented perspectives, an alternative character/virtue approach has recently found wide acceptance, particularly in the work of Alasdair MacIntyre and Stanley Hauerwas. Hollinger provides a...

as foundations for moral judgments and embody particular approaches in the decision-making process: Consequentialists utilize an evaluation of results, and adherents of principle ethics utilize rules and principles. Consequentialists believe that the ultimate criterion or standard of right and wrong is ends or results. Committing adultery, for example, is not inherently wrong in and of itself, but through our life together as human beings the consequences that arise from adultery
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