God and Morality A Philosophical History

by Hare, John E.

• ISBN13: 9781405195980
• ISBN10: 1405195983
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-08-17
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

God and Morality evaluates the ethical theories of four principle philosophers, Aristotle, Duns Scotus, Kant, and R.M. Hare. Uses their thinking as the basis for telling the story of the history and development of ethical thought more broadly Focuses specifically on their writings on virtue, will, duty, and consequence Concentrates on the theistic beliefs to highlight continuity of philosophical thought

Author Biography

John E. Hare is Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology at Yale University. His books include The Moral Gap (1996), God's Call (2001), and Why Bother Being Good? (2002). He has also written on Greek philosophy, international relations, Kant, evolutionary ethics, and biomedical ethics.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Aristotle

The School of Athens

The Protretpicus

God and Nous in Nicomachean Ethics Book I

The First Sentence of the Nicomachean Ethics

Heading towards the Good Virtue

Larry Arnhart

Duns Scotus

The Disputà

Duns Scotus, Lectura

The Two Affections of the Will

Justice and God

Scotus and Virtue

Scotus and Particularity

Jean-Paul Sartre

Immanuel Kant

The Time Between

Kant, Lectures on Ethics (Collins)

The Groundwork

The Critique of Practical Reason

Religion

Metaphysics of Morals

Christine Korsgaard

R. M. Hare

The Time Between

"An Essay on Monism"

The Language of Morals

Freedom and Reason

Moral Thinking

Peter Singer

Combining the Theories

The Goal of the Chapter

Virtue Theory

Command Theory

Consequentialism

Bibliography

Index of Biblical References

General Index

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