Graven Images: Substitutes for True Morality
Dietrich Von Hildebrand
Graven Images: Substitutes for True Morality
Dietrich Von Hildebrand
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Dietrich von Hildebrand provides a uniquely in-depth and astute analysis of the many ways we substitute false idols (the graven images ) for true Christian morality. This is not a simple book on the differences between good and evil; most people do not replace true morality with pure evil, but with some other extramoral good, like respectability or honor. Hildebrand guides us through these false alternatives, helping to show both what is good in them, but also where they fall short of the uniqueness of true Christian morality.
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When this book first appeared in 1957, it was a whirlwind of fresh air in the field of moral theology and philosophy. The novelty was first of all methodological: the attempt to go back to things themselves and to start an investigation that makes a direct appeal to the lived experience of the inquirer. The task of the philosopher is not that of reading books, combining them in different ways, and then producing a new book. The primary textbook of philosophy is human experience itself and the reader (or, rather, the listener) is called to make an active comparison between what is presented to him and what he experiences in his own life. Philosophy in this sense is not so much a doctrine as an activity: the textbook is human life itself.
– Rocco Buttiglione
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