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With over 60,000 copies in print since its original publication in 1984, Ethics has served numerous generations of students as a classic introduction to philosophical ethics from a Christian perspective. Over the years the philosophical landscape has changed somewhat, and in this second edition Arthur Holmes adjusts the argument and information throughout, completely rewriting the original...

view of human nature, however, holding to a more natural moral order in human society, more natural altruism and benevolence. But this means rejecting both psychological and ethical egoism. Some utilitarians claim that I should seek good consequences for all people because that is what will make me happy: they adopt utilitarian means to egoistical ends. But that does not justify their egoistic ends, even if it does keep them from bestiality or anarchy. And the adequacy of a utilitarian approach must
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