Contents
Preface VII
Dedication IX
Acknowledgments X
Contributors XI
Introduction • Leroy S. Rouner 1

PART I: CHRISTIANITY AND MODERN CULTURE
1. Kant and the Mythic Roots
of Morality • John R. Silber 15
2 Reason, Tradition, Community: The Search for
Ethical Foundations • Charles Davis 37
3 "But We Do See Jesus”: The Particularity of Incarnation and the Universality of
Truth • John Howard Yoder 57
4 Pilgrimage to Communitarian
Personalism • Walter G. Muelder 76
PART II: ISSUES IN PHILOSOPHICAL ETHICS
5 Utilitarianism and the Goodness of
Persons • Lynda Sharp Paine 101
• Rights, Privacy, and Tainted Ideals • Edward W.
James 115
Confession and Moral Choice • Sissela Bok 133

8. Supererogation: Artistry in Conduct • Daniel R.
DeNicola 149
PART III: ETHICS IN A WORLD COMMUNITY
9. The Ethics of the Auspicious: Western Encounter
with Hindu Values • John B. Carman 167
10. Ethics and Mysticism • Steven T. Katz 184
11. Tragic Choices: Ethics after
the Holocaust • Roger S. Gottlieb 203
12. Reflections on the Ambiguity
of Science • Robert S. Cohen 223 Index 235