Ethics and religion
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Ethics and religion
(Cambridge studies in religion, philosophy, and society / series editors, Paul Moser, Chad Meister)
Cambridge University Press, 2016
- : pbk
Available at 5 libraries
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
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  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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  United Kingdom
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-189) and index
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- Part I. Ethics as God's Commands: 2. Divine command theory
- 3. Modified DCT
- Part II. Ethics as Natural Laws: 4. Natural law: rationality
- 5. Natural law: biology
- 6. Natural law: spirituality
- Part III. Ethics and Atheism: 7. Ethics without God
- 8. God, evil, and cosmic purpose.
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