Twentieth-Century North Atlantic Ethics

3 credits · Graduate School

An examination of figures and movements that influenced the discourse on religious ethics in both Europe and North America. Special attention to representatives of History of Religions School (Troltsch, Ott); logical positivism, political theology (Moltmann, Metz, Habermas); neo-orthodox and existential theologies (Brunner, Barth, Buber, Reinhold Niebuhr); as well as ethics influenced by Wittgenstein. [3] Anderson.