Author: Mark C. Murphy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-11-17
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 0199693668
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: John Deigh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-03-04
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 052177246X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book examines the central questions of ethics through a study of the great ethical works of Western philosophy.
Author: Allen Wood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-10-12
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 1108349579
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This Element defends a reading of Kant's formulas of the moral law in Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. It disputes a long tradition concerning what the first formula (Universal Law/Law of Nature) attempts to do. The Element also expounds the Formulas of Humanity, Autonomy and the Realm of Ends, arguing that it is only the Formula of Humanity from which Kant derives general duties, and that it is only the third formula (Autonomy/Realm of Ends) that represents a complete and definitive statement of the moral principle as Kant derives it in the Groundwork. The Element also disputes the claim that the various formulas are 'equivalent', arguing that this claim is either false or else nonsensical because it is grounded on a false premise about what Kant thinks a moral principle is for.
Author: Kent Greenawalt
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 0195058240
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Powerful emotion and pursuit of self-interest have many times led people to break the law with the belief that they are doing so with sound moral reasons. This study is a comprehensive philosophical and legal analysis of the gray area in which the foundations of law and morality clash. In examining the extent of the obligations owed by citizens to their government, Greenawalt concentrates on the possible existence of a single source of obligation that reaches all citizens and all laws.
Author: Jason C. Meyer
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 080544842X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A study of Paul's theology in the Bible, focusing on his view of the old covenant God made with Israel and the new covenant Jesus announced at the Last Supper.
Author: Holger Zaborowski
Publisher: CUA Press
Published: 2010-08
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0813217865
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The essays of this volume examine natural moral law, different natural law theories, and the role that natural law can and should play in our contemporary society
Author: Lon Luvois Fuller
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0300004729
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Oliver Sensen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 1107004861
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explores the central importance Kant's concept of autonomy for contemporary moral thought and modern philosophy.
Author: Christopher J. Insole
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2020-04-08
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 0198853521
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The book offers a definitive study of the development of Kant's conception of the highest good, from his earliest work, to his dying days. Insole argues that Kant believes in God, but that Kant is not a Christian, and that this opens up an important and neglected dimension of Western Philosophy. Kant is not a Christian, because he cannot accept Christianity's traditional claims about the relationship between divine action, grace, human freedom and happiness. Christian theologians who continue to affirm these traditional claims (and many do), therefore have grounds to be suspicious of Kant as an interpreter of Christian doctrine. As well as setting out a theological critique of Kant, Insole offers a new defence of the power, beauty, and internal coherence of Kant's non-Christian philosophical religiosity, 'within the limits of reason alone', which reason itself has some divine features. This neglected strand of philosophical religiosity deserves to be engaged with by both philosophers, and theologians. The Kant revealed in this book reminds us of a perennial task of philosophy, going back to Plato, where philosophy is construed as a way of life, oriented towards happiness, achieved through a properly expansive conception of reason and happiness. When we understand this philosophical religiosity, many standard 'problems' in the interpretation of Kant can be seen in a new light, and resolved. Kant witnesses to a strand of philosophy that leans into the category of the divine, at the edges of what we can say about reason, freedom, autonomy, and happiness.