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God and Moral Obligation (Paperback)
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God and Moral Obligation (Paperback)
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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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