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W. Royce Clark dares to ask whether, even today in an age of religious pluralism, a universal ethic is still possible, and if so, how? Written from a Western philosophical approach, he provides detailed surveys and critical assessments with a new focus to guide future scholarly studies. Being the second book in a series that seeks to establish the groundwork and framework needed by religiously pluralistic societies, this text will prove to be especially rewarding for those working in the fields of religious ethics, the philosophy of religion, and all those who feel a new approach is needed to truly secure a shared culture of mutual trust.--David K. Goodin, McGill School of Religious Studies and the Institut de Theologie Orthodoxe de Montreal

Possessing the most brilliant mind of anyone I have known in my lifetime, W. Royce Clark explores in this book the single most vital question that any human being--or any religion, or any culture, or any civilization, or any nation--could possibly ask, because it concerns the survival of the human race. Can religion supply a universal ethic that unites rather than divides people from one another? To this point in the history of the human race, the answer to that question has been negative, since each religion has insisted on its own Absolute universality, thereby alienating the rest of the species. We have seen the lethal fruit of religious Absolutism across the globe time and time again. But ours is a global community in which isolation is hardly a luxury. Is it possible, then, to imagine a universal religious sentiment that might, in turn, inspire a universal ethic? This is the most urgent question for our time, the most urgent question, in fact, that one might imagine, and the question that Clark explores in this remarkable book.--Richard T. Hughes, author of Myths America Lives By: White Supremacy the Stories that Give Us Meaning W. Royce Clark dares to ask whether, even today in an age of religious pluralism, a universal ethic is still possible, and if so, how? Written from a Western philosophical approach, he provides detailed surveys and critical assessments with a new focus to guide future scholarly studies. Being the second book in a series that seeks to establish the groundwork and framework needed by religiously pluralistic societies, this text will prove to be especially rewarding for those working in the fields of religious ethics, the philosophy of religion, and all those who feel a new approach is needed to truly secure a shared culture of mutual trust.--David K. Goodin, McGill School of Religious Studies and the Institut de Theologie Orthodoxe de Montreal

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W. Royce Clark is professor emeritus of Pepperdine University.

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