The Hildebrand Project’s decision to republish the present book…enables new readers to appreciate its alive and wholesome witness to the shape of a truly good conscience and sound moral formation.
Reviews & Commentary
It is worth owning, not just for Hildebrand’s classic argumentation, but also for the new introduction added to it by Finnis.
It is a particularly timely book today for those concerned about maintaining countercultural absolute prohibitions without falling into Pharisaicalism, for this book threads precisely that needle.
Hildebrand is the kind of thinker we need for today: metaphysically and ethically realist, while thinking through things in a deeply sophisticated way.
Morality and Situation Ethics is a clear, coherent, and persuasive book; it accomplishes the rare feat of challenging both the reader’s abstract moral theories and his day-to-day habits.
It’s a clear and insightful book, and remarkably applicable to problems today in moral thinking in the Catholic Church and secular society, decades after it was written.
Through the wealth and carefulness of his analysis, along with the skill with which he discovers the kernels of truth and beauty wherever they are to be found, von Hildebrand uncovers the errors of false situation ethics. But at the same time, he finds fault also with the self-righteous, complacent mediocrity, and juridical moralism that is false and lifeless. Thus he clearly sets forth the uniqueness of Christian morality.
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