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God and Moral Law - On the Theistic Explanation of Morality (Hardcover, New)
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God and Moral Law - On the Theistic Explanation of Morality (Hardcover, New)
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Does God's existence make a difference to how we explain morality?
Mark C. Murphy critiques the two dominant theistic accounts of
morality--natural law theory and divine command theory--and
presents a novel third view. He argues that we can value natural
facts about humans and their good, while keeping God at the centre
of our moral explanations.
The characteristic methodology of theistic ethics is to proceed by
asking whether there are features of moral norms that can be
adequately explained only if we hold that such norms have some sort
of theistic foundation. But this methodology, fruitful as it has
been, is one-sided. God and Moral Law proceeds not from the side of
the moral norms, so to speak, but from the God side of things: what
sort of explanatory relationship should we expect between God and
moral norms given the existence of the God of orthodox theism? Mark
C. Murphy asks whether the conception of God in orthodox theism as
an absolutely perfect being militates in favor of a particular view
of the explanation of morality by appeal to theistic facts. He puts
this methodology to work and shows that, surprisingly, natural law
theory and divine command theory fail to offer the sort of
explanation of morality that we would expect given the existence of
the God of orthodox theism. Drawing on the discussion of a
structurally similar problem--that of the relationship between God
and the laws of nature--Murphy articulates his new account of the
relationship between God and morality, one in which facts about God
and facts about nature cooperate in the explanation of moral law.
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