Decidedly Christian ethics is developed in conversation with and in opposite to Kant's ethics of reason (Categorical imperative as a universal moral law), Kitcher's "Ethics without God" (as an evolutionary process) and Boehm's "Radical Universalism" (as a self-evident principle beyond any image of God). In doing so, an attempt is made to remove the concepts of autonomy and heteronomy from their position as controversial concepts and to put them in a right relationship from a Christian point of view. The relation to God is constitutive of New Testament- / Christian ethics (heteronomy), along with resposibility for own behaviour (autonomy). Rom 1.20; 2.14-16 however seem to render possible ethics without knowledge of God. But they turn out to be a "zitation" of non-Christian thoughts which Paul includes theologically. The origin of such thoughts lies not only in the Stoa, but also likely in Platon's Eutyphron-Dialogue.

Enthalten in:
Zeitschrift für Evangelische Ethik; 2023/2 Kommentare, Studien, Berichte, Dokumentationen, Diskussionen, Rezensionen, Bibliographie (2023)

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Serie / Reihe: Zeitschrift für Evangelische Ethik

Personen: Scholz, Guenter

Schlagwörter: Christliche Ethik Menschenrechte Autonomie Neues Testament Menschenwürde