Law, Love and Language

What is ethics all about? In this book Herbert McCabe suggests that it is about loving, obeying laws, and talking to people. In doing so, he offers an introduction to ethical thinking for anyone with a serious interest in moral philosophy. He does so as someone who writes with a Christian audience in mind. Most of his arguments, however, do not presuppose a believing Christian readership. McCabe, who died in 2001, was no ivory tower theologian. As a Christian thinker of astonishing originality, he was fully engaged with the world and its political and social realities and was able to comment on what it is for Christians to try to live ethically. He was also a gifted philosopher, as this book clearly indicates. So he was able to comment on human action and the difference between 'good' and 'bad' without seeming to 'preach to the choir'.

Herbert McCabe of the Order of Preachers was one of the outstanding Catholic intellectuals of the post-War years. He published very few books but what he published had great influence. He died in 2001