God's Command

John E. Hare received his BA from Oxford University, and his Ph.D. from Princeton University. He then taught atLehigh 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, thePhilosophy Department, the Religious Studies Department, and the Classics Department. He has written sixbooks, including The Moral Gap (OUP 1997) and God and Morality (Wiley-Blackwell 2009).

• Preface ; 1. Morality and Religion ; 2. What is a Divine Command? ; 3. Eudaimonism ; 4. Can We Deduce Morality from Human Nature? ; 5. Barth on Divine Command ; 6. Divine Command in Some Medieval Islamic Thinkers ; 7. Divine Command in Some Recent Jewish Thinkers ; 8. Divine Command and Evolutionary Psychology ; 9. Summary ; Bibliography

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.