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Religion and Morality addresses central issues arising from religion's relation to morality. Part one offers a sympathetic but critical appraisal of the claim that features of morality provide evidence for the truth of religious belief. Part two examines divine command theories, objections to them, and positive arguments in their support. Part three explores tensions between human morality, as ordinarily understood, and religious requirements by discussing such issues as the conflict between Buddhist and Christian pacifism and requirements of justice, whether ""virtue"" without a love of God i
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Naturalistic ethics is the reigning paradigm among contemporary ethicists; in God and Cosmos, Baggett and Walls argue that this approach is seriously flawed. This book canvasses a broad array of secular and naturalistic ethical theories in an effort to test their adequacy in accounting for moral duties, intrinsic human value, prospects for radical moral transformation, and the rationality of morality. In each case, the authors argue, although various secular accounts provide real insights and indeed share common ground with theistic ethics, the resources of classical theism and orthodox Christianity provide the better explanation of the moral realities under consideration. Among such realities is the fundamental insight behind the problem of evil, namely, that the world is not as it should be. Baggett and Walls argue that God and the world, taken together, exhibit superior explanatory scope and power for morality classically construed, without the need to water down the categories of morality, the import of human value, the prescriptive strength of moral obligations, or the deliverances of the logic, language, and phenomenology of moral experience. This book thus provides a cogent moral argument for God's existence, one that is abductive, teleological, and cumulative. -- Provided by publisher.
Religion and ethics --- Ethics --- God --- Religious ethics
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Buddhism --- Religion and ethics --- Religion and sociology. --- Buddhism --- Buddhism --- Social aspects. --- Philosophy. --- Environmental aspects. --- Philosophy.
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Many people question whether God is the source of morality. Under divine command theory, God's will creates the moral order, and therefore ethical truths are true because of God's will. Under natural law, on the other hand, some ethical truths do not depend on God's will, and yet perhaps they depend on his reason or creation. Ethics and Religion develops strong, defensible, and original versions of both divine command theory and natural law. The book also discusses ethics and atheism: how atheists object on ethical grounds to belief in God and how they view ethics. The book defends belief in God from criticisms and analyzes related concepts, such as practical reason, the golden rule, ethics and evolution, the problem of evil, and the fine-tuning argument.
Religion and ethics --- Religious ethics --- Natural law --- Ethics --- Philosophy --- Philosophy & Religion --- Law of nature (Law) --- Natural rights --- Nature, Law of (Law) --- Rights, Natural --- Law --- Religions --- Ethics and religion --- Religion and ethics. --- Religious ethics. --- Natural law.
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The Mystery of Moral Authority argues for a sceptical and pragmatic view of morality as an all-too-human institution. Searching, intellectually rigorous, and always fair to rival views, it represents the state of the art in a tradition of moral philosophy that includes Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, and J.L. Mackie.
Philosophy. --- Ethics. --- Religion --- Political philosophy. --- Social sciences --- Moral Philosophy. --- Political Philosophy. --- Social Philosophy. --- Philosophy of Religion. --- Ethical relativism. --- Naturalism. --- Divine commands (Ethics) --- Metaethics. --- Meta-ethics --- Divine command theory of ethics --- Theological voluntarism --- Moral relativism --- Relativism, Ethical --- Relativity (Ethics) --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Philosophy --- Values --- Ethics --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Religion and ethics --- God --- Materialism --- Mechanism (Philosophy) --- Positivism --- Science --- Ethics, Evolutionary --- Will --- Political science --- Social sciences-Philosophy. --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Political philosophy --- Social sciences—Philosophy. --- Religion—Philosophy.
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