God and cosmos [electronic resource] : moral truth and human meaning / David Baggett and Jerry L. Walls.
2016
BJ47 .B338 2016eb
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God and cosmos [electronic resource] : moral truth and human meaning / David Baggett and Jerry L. Walls.
Author
Baggett, David, author.
ISBN
9780190464165 (electronic book)
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (329 pages)
Item Number
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199931194 doi
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BJ47 .B338 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
205
Summary
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Walls, Jerry L., author.
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Table of Contents
Alone in the cosmos
The case for abduction
The problem of evil, freedom, and moral responsibility
Moral value
Moral obligations
Moral knowledge
Moral transformation
Moral rationality
A moral argument.
The case for abduction
The problem of evil, freedom, and moral responsibility
Moral value
Moral obligations
Moral knowledge
Moral transformation
Moral rationality
A moral argument.