Divine Commands and Morality

Divine Commands and Morality
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 200
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015048539061
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Synopsis Divine Commands and Morality by : Paul Helm

This collection of twelve papers covers the question of the relation between morality and religion. The contributors include William Frankena, Philip Quinn, Robert Merrihew Adams, Richard Swinburne, James Rachels, Nelson Pike, Peter Geach, Robert Young, Baruch Brody, and others.

Divine Command Morality

Divine Command Morality
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Publisher : New York ; Toronto : E. Mellon Press
Total Pages : 364
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ISBN-10 : UCAL:B3423308
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Synopsis Divine Command Morality by :

An anthology that provides new translations and makes available much of the relevant historical literature needed for an exploration of the view that morality is very literally created by God. Contains 41 selections representing discussions of divine command morality in Ancient philosophy, scholastic philosophical theology, the Reformation tradition, the British modern period, and contemporary analytic philosophy. This book includes a bibliography of Latin, French, English, German, and Italian sources on divine command morality.

Ethics and Religion

Ethics and Religion
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 205
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ISBN-10 : 9781107052444
ISBN-13 : 1107052440
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis Ethics and Religion by : Harry J. Gensler

This book develops strong versions of divine command theory and natural law and defends the importance of God to morality.

God and Morality

God and Morality
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 317
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ISBN-10 : 9781405195980
ISBN-13 : 1405195983
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis God and Morality by : John E. Hare

God and Morality evaluates the ethical theories of four principle philosophers, Aristotle, Duns Scotus, Kant, and R.M. Hare. Uses their thinking as the basis for telling the story of the history and development of ethical thought more broadly Focuses specifically on their writings on virtue, will, duty, and consequence Concentrates on the theistic beliefs to highlight continuity of philosophical thought

God's Command

God's Command
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 495
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ISBN-10 : 9780191063497
ISBN-13 : 0191063495
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Synopsis God's Command by : John E. Hare

This work focuses on divine command, and in particular the theory that what makes something obligatory is that God commands it, and what makes something wrong is that God commands us not to do it. Focusing on the Abrahamic faiths, eminent scholar John E. Hare explains that two experiences have had to be integrated. The first is that God tells us to do something, or not to do something. The second is that we have to work out ourselves what to do and what not to do. The difficulty has come in establishing the proper relation between them. In Christian reflection on this, two main traditions have emerged, divine command theory and natural law theory. Hare successfully defends a version of divine command theory, but also shows that there is considerable overlap with some versions of natural law theory. He engages with a number of Christian theologians, particularly Karl Barth, and extends into a discussion of divine command within Judaism and Islam. The work concludes by examining recent work in evolutionary psychology, and argues that thinking of our moral obligations as produced by divine command offers us some help in seeing how a moral conscience could develop in a way that is evolutionarily stable.

Morality Without God?

Morality Without God?
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Publisher : OUP USA
Total Pages : 193
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ISBN-10 : 9780195337631
ISBN-13 : 0195337638
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis Morality Without God? by : Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

A common refrain against atheism and secular humanism is that without belief in God, "everything is permitted." Walter Sinnott-Armstrong dismantles this argument and argues instead that God is not only not essential to morality, but that our moral behavior should be seen as utterly independent of religion. This short, accessible book is on a major aspect of the arguments against atheism and will interest those intrigued by the "new atheism" (Harris, Dawkins, etc).

The God who Commands

The God who Commands
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Total Pages : 232
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015018498892
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Synopsis The God who Commands by : Richard J. Mouw

In this book, Richard Mouw probes, from a Calvinist tradition, the place of obedience to a divine command. He suggests that a Calvinist perspective on moral theology can profit from an openness to some contemporary developments, particularly narrativist ethics and feminist thought.

God and Moral Obligation

God and Moral Obligation
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 210
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ISBN-10 : 9780199696680
ISBN-13 : 0199696683
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis God and Moral Obligation by : C. Stephen Evans

C. Stephen Evans defends the claim that moral obligations are best understood as divine commands or requirements; hence an important part of morality depends on God. God's requirements are communicated in a variety of ways, including conscience, and that natural law ethics and virtue ethics provide complementary perspectives to this view.

God and Moral Law

God and Moral Law
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 204
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ISBN-10 : 9780199693665
ISBN-13 : 0199693668
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis God and Moral Law by : Mark C. Murphy

Does God's existence make a difference to how we explain morality? Mark C. Murphy critiques the two dominant theistic accounts of morality—natural law theory and divine command theory—and presents a novel third view. He argues that we can value natural facts about humans and their good, while keeping God at the centre of our moral explanations. The characteristic methodology of theistic ethics is to proceed by asking whether there are features of moral norms that can be adequately explained only if we hold that such norms have some sort of theistic foundation. But this methodology, fruitful as it has been, is one-sided. God and Moral Law proceeds not from the side of the moral norms, so to speak, but from the God side of things: what sort of explanatory relationship should we expect between God and moral norms given the existence of the God of orthodox theism? Mark C. Murphy asks whether the conception of God in orthodox theism as an absolutely perfect being militates in favour of a particular view of the explanation of morality by appeal to theistic facts. He puts this methodology to work and shows that, surprisingly, natural law theory and divine command theory fail to offer the sort of explanation of morality that we would expect given the existence of the God of orthodox theism. Drawing on the discussion of a structurally similar problem—that of the relationship between God and the laws of nature—Murphy articulates his new account of the relationship between God and morality, one in which facts about God and facts about nature cooperate in the explanation of moral law.

Four Dialogues

Four Dialogues
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Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages : 90
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ISBN-10 : 9781434458162
ISBN-13 : 1434458164
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis Four Dialogues by : Plato

Included in this volume are "Euthyphro," "Apology," "Crito," and the Death Scene from "Phaedo." Translated by F.J. Church. Revisions and Introduction by Robert D. Cumming.