Self Love and Christian Ethics [Paperback]

In this book, Darlene Fozard Weaver challenges contemporary culture's promotion of self-realization and argues for proper self love.Our contemporary moral climate urges self-realization and suggests that we determine for ourselves what sorts of acts and relations make this possible and proper. It encourages self love while depriving us of the resources needed to discern what it means to love ourselves rightly. Christian ethical ambivalence about self love complicates matters further. This book draws on theological accounts of the person to argue that right self love involves truthfulness of and to the self, embodied in one's acts and relations, under the norms of love for God and neighbor.Our contemporary moral climate urges self-realization and suggests that we determine for ourselves what sorts of acts and relations make this possible and proper. It encourages self love while depriving us of the resources needed to discern what it means to love ourselves rightly. Christian ethical ambivalence about self love complicates matters further. This book draws on theological accounts of the person to argue that right self love involves truthfulness of and to the self, embodied in one's acts and relations, under the norms of love for God and neighbor.The contemporary moral climate encourages self love but deprives the individual of the resources needed to discern what it means to love oneself. Christian ethical ambivalence about self love complicates matters further. This book draws on theological accounts to assert that self love requires honesty to oneself and in acts and relationships. The arguments thereby call upon ethicists to revisit ontological accounts of the self.1. The contemporary problem of self love; 2. Self love in Christian ethics; 3. A hermeneutical account of self-relation; 4. Right self love; 5. Self love and moral action; 6. Self love, religion and morality. In her thorough study, a contribution to a prestigious series, Darlene Fozard Weaver addresses aló