| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Part I: The 'explanatory gap'. 1. Why take morality to be objective? -- 2. The gap opens: evolution and our capacity for moral knowledge -- Part II: Secular responses. 3. Alternatives to realism: Simon Blackburn and Allan Gibbard -- 4. Procedures and reasons: Tim Scanlon and Christine Korsgaard -- 5. Natural goodness: Philippa Foot's moral objectivism -- 6. Natural goodness and 'second nature': John McDowell and David Wiggin -- Part III: Theism. 7. From goodness to God: closing the explanatory gap -- 8. Purpose without theism? Axiarchism and Neoplatonism |
| Summary |
Angus Ritchie offers an argument for the existence of God, which is based on our most fundamental moral beliefs. He argues for the 'deliberative indispensability' of moral realism, and asserts that only theism can adequately explain our capacity for knowledge of objective moral truths |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on Dec. 14, 2012) |
| Subject |
God (Christianity)
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Religion and ethics.
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RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- General.
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God (Christianity)
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Religion and ethics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191745850 |
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0191745855 |
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