God and Morality

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

Autorentext
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.

Zusammenfassung

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

Inhalt
Introduction. 1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Immanuel Kant.

The Time Between.

Kant, Lectures on Ethics (Collins).

The Groundwork.

The Critique of Practical Reason.

Religion.

Metaphysics of Morals.

Christine Korsgaard.

4. R. M. Hare.

The Time Between.

An Essay on Monism.

The Language of Morals.

Freedom and Reason.

Moral Thinking.

Peter Singer.

5. Combining the Theories.

The Goal of the Chapter.

Virtue Theory.

Command Theory.

Consequentialism.

Bibliography.

Index of Biblical References.

General Index.