Ethics by Dietrich Bonhoeffer6/23/2023 ![]() ![]() Quoting Scripture with ease, making great use of the Greek text, and citing Kierkegaard and Nietzsche fluidly, Bonhoeffer's prose is remarkable, and to be sure, captivating. Written for the most part in jail as he was imprisoned by the National Socialists in Germany from 1943 until he was hanged in 1945, Bonhoeffer's work is surly incomplete, but nevertheless, stands as a staggering piece of ethical literature, and one that causes the reader to view all ethical systems heretofore, by taking a step back, and perchance force the reader to reevaluate them in this new light. ![]() "The knowledge of good and evil seems to be the aim of all ethical reflections," opens Bonhoeffer." The first task of Christian ethics is to invalidate this knowledge" (17). ![]()
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