TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nielsen,Kai
TI  - God and the Grounding of Morality
SN  - 9780776616032
AV  - BJ47.N46 1991 
U1  - 171 
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Ottawa
PB  - University of Ottawa Press
KW  - Religion and ethics
KW  - Natural law
KW  - Human rights
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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