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Author Plé, Albert, 1909-1988, author

Title Duty or pleasure? : a new appraisal of Christian ethics / by Albert Plé, O.P.; translated by Matthew J. O'Connell
Published New York : Paragon House Publishers, [1987]
New York : Paragon House Publishers, 1987
©1987
©1987

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Description xvi, 238 pages ; 23 cm
Contents 1. The moralities of happiness -- 2. The smothering of the spirit by the letter -- 3. Historical development of the moralities of duty -- 4. The crisis of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth centuries -- 5. The legacy -- 6. The damage done by "traditional" morality -- 7. A morality of pleasure? -- 8. The search for pleasure -- 9. The authentic experience of pleasure -- 10. The restoration of pleasure to the moral life -- 11. The laws of pleasure -- 12. What of the law? -- 13. Education in morality is education in pleasure
Analysis Christian ethics - Catholic authors
Notes Includes index
Translation of: Par devoir ou par plaisir?
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [183]-232
Subject Christian ethics.
Pleasure.
LC no. 86016986
ISBN 0913729248 (hard)
0913729256 (paperback)
Other Titles Par devoir ou par plaisir? English