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God and the Grounding of Morality.

By: Publication details: Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, 1997.Description: 1 online resource (230 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780776616032
  • 077661603X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: God and the Grounding of Morality.DDC classification:
  • 171
LOC classification:
  • BJ47.N46 1991
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Contents:
Introduction; CHAPTER 1 God and the Good: Does Morality Need Religion?; CHAPTER 2 Hobbesist and Humean Alternatives to a Religious Morality; CHAPTER 3 An Examination of the Thomistic Theory of Natural Moral Law; CHAPTER 4 The Myth of Natural Law; CHAPTER 5 On Taking Human Nature as the Basis of Morality: An Exercise in Linguistic Analysis; CHAPTER 6 Scepticism and Human Rights; CHAPTER 7 On Human Rights; CHAPTER 8 Grounding Rights and a Method of Reflective Equilibrium; CHAPTER 9 On Sticking with Secular Morality; CHAPTER 10 Politics and Theology: Do We Need a Political Theology?
CHAPTER 11 God and the Basis of MoralityIndex.
Summary: These essays make a single central claim: that human beings can still make sense of their lives and still have a humane morality, even if their worldview is utterly secular and even if they have lost the last vestige of belief in God. "Even in a self-consciously Godless world life can be fully meaningful," Nielsen contends.
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Introduction; CHAPTER 1 God and the Good: Does Morality Need Religion?; CHAPTER 2 Hobbesist and Humean Alternatives to a Religious Morality; CHAPTER 3 An Examination of the Thomistic Theory of Natural Moral Law; CHAPTER 4 The Myth of Natural Law; CHAPTER 5 On Taking Human Nature as the Basis of Morality: An Exercise in Linguistic Analysis; CHAPTER 6 Scepticism and Human Rights; CHAPTER 7 On Human Rights; CHAPTER 8 Grounding Rights and a Method of Reflective Equilibrium; CHAPTER 9 On Sticking with Secular Morality; CHAPTER 10 Politics and Theology: Do We Need a Political Theology?

CHAPTER 11 God and the Basis of MoralityIndex.

These essays make a single central claim: that human beings can still make sense of their lives and still have a humane morality, even if their worldview is utterly secular and even if they have lost the last vestige of belief in God. "Even in a self-consciously Godless world life can be fully meaningful," Nielsen contends.

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