God's Command

John E. Hare received his BA from Oxford University, and his Ph.D. from Princeton University. He then taught at Lehigh University, with a couple of years on the staff of the House Foreign Affairs Committee in Washington, DC. He then taught at Calvin College, and went to Yale in 2003, where he teaches in the Divinity School, the Philosophy Department, the Religious Studies Department, and the Classics Department. His publications include The Moral Gap (OUP, 1997) and God and Morality (Wiley Blackwell, 2009).

• Preface1: Morality and Religion2: What is a Divine Command?3: Eudaimonism4: Can We Deduce Morality from Human Nature?5: Barth on Divine Command6: Divine Command in Some Medieval Islamic Thinkers7: Divine Command in Some Recent Jewish Thinkers8: Divine Command and Evolutionary Psychology9: SummaryBibliography

The book is incredibly rich in scope and ambition, canvassing just about every major philosophical issue that arises in connection with divine commands. In the process Hare discusses a dizzying array of thinkers who have reflected on relevant issues, critiquing many of them with insights both trenchant and penetrating. The net effect is an impressive and comprehensive articulation and defense of divine command theory.