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Moral Thinking A groundbreaking corrective work, Latina/o Social
Ethics strives to create a liberative ethical approach to the
Hispanic experience by using its own tools and materials. First
explaining why Eurocentric ethical paradigms are inadequate in
their attempts to liberate oppressed communities, Miguel De La
Torre looks with Hispanic eyes at three major ethicists of the
twentieth century—Walter Rauschenbusch, Reinhold Niebuhr, and
Stanley Hauerwas—and how ethics is presented in U.S. culture
wars, from the Religious Right to the Religious Left. He
deconstructs these ethical paradigms and demonstrates why all
are detrimental to and irreconcilable with the Hispanic social
location. With a clean slate, then, De La Torre moves to
constructing a new Hispanic-centered ethical paradigm that is
rooted in the Latino community way of being. Reviewing the field
of Hispanic ethical thought, D