From morality to metaphysics
Subtitle: the theistic implications of our ethical commitments
By: Angus Ritchie
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780199652518; 9780191745850
Subjects: Religion and ethics; Ethik; Theismus; Theism; Moralisches Handeln; Gottesfrage; Ethics; Gott
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-195) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: The 'explanatory gap'. 1. Why take morality to be objective?; title: 2. The gap opens: evolution and our capacity for moral knowledge; title: Part II: Secular responses. 3. Alternatives to realism: Simon Blackburn and Allan Gibbard; title: 4. Procedures and reasons: Tim Scanlon and Christine Korsgaard; title: 5. Natural goodness: Philippa Foot's moral objectivism; title: 6. Natural goodness and 'second nature': John McDowell and David Wiggin; title: Part III: Theism. 7. From goodness to God: closing the explanatory gap; title: 8. Purpose without theism? Axiarchism and Neoplatonism.