Is there a connection between religion and morality? Ivan Karamazov,
in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, famously declares that if God
does not exist, then "everything is permitted." Most philosophers
reject such a view and hold that moral truths do not depend on God.
C.Stephen Evans argues that the truth lies somewhere between these two
claims. It is not quite right to say that there would be nothing left
of morality if God did not exist, but moral obligations do depend on
God ontologically. Such obligations are best understood as God's
commands or requirements, communicated to humans in a variety of ways,
including conscience. In God and Moral Obligation, Evans also argues
that two views often thought to be rivals to a divine command
morality, natural law ethics and virtue ethics, are not rivals at all
but provide necessary complementary elements of a comprehensive
morality. A number of objections to a divine command account of moral
obligations are posed and answered. In the concluding chapters Evans
points out the advantages such an account has over secular rivals. The
authority and objectivity of moral obligations are best explained by
seeing them as divine commands.
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9780191648731
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2020
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OUP Oxford
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Engelsk
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