God and Cosmos

Moral Truth and Human Meaning

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

AvDavid Baggett,Jerry L. Walls,Liberty University) Baggett, David (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy,University of Notre Dame) Walls, Jerry L. (Visiting Scholar, Visiting Scholar, Center for Philosophy of Religion,BAGGETT,Baggett

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-03-17
Mått236 x 163 x 27 mm
Vikt726 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor344
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780199931194

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David Baggett is a professor of philosophy and apologetics in the graduate school of the School of Divinity at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. He has written or edited about ten books, in such areas as philosophy and popular culture, apologetics, and ethics; and published several dozen articles in the philosophy of religion, epistemology, and theology. He is the executive editor of MoralApologetics.com, and his book Good God: The Theistic Foundations of Morality, co-written with Jerry Walls, won Christianity Today's 2012 Best Book in Apologetics.Jerry L. Walls is Professor of Philosophy and Scholar in Residence at Houston Baptist University. He is the author or co-author of over a dozen books, including a trilogy on the afterlife.

AcknowledgmentsIntroductionIntroduction to Part IChapter 1: Alone in the CosmosChapter 2: The Case for AbductionChapter 3: The Problem of Evil, Freedom, and Moral ResponsibilityIntroduction to Part IIChapter 4: Moral ValueChapter 5: Moral ObligationsChapter 6: Moral KnowledgeChapter 7: Moral TransformationChapter 8: Moral RationalityIntroduction to Part IIIChapter 9: A Moral ArgumentConclusionIndex

"Baggett and Walls provide a veritable history of ethical philosophy as they develop and support their thesis. The number of scholars cited-ancient, enlightenment, and modern-is impressive "--CHOICE"This is the book I had hoped they would write after Good God. Their previous book was mostly constructing their own theory, but God and Cosmos engages in significant detail with much of the best recent work in non-theist ethical theory. It is characteristically punchy in style, but at the end movingly eloquent in defense of a theist foundation for the authority of morality. The section on moral knowledge is especially fine, and takes thesubject forward in an interesting way." --John E. Hare, Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology, Yale Divinity School"Baggett and Walls are to be commended for developing a very interesting and important line of reasoning that I hope they and others will continue to explore in the coming years." --Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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