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Comprised of readings from ancient to modern times, this volume
offers a comprehensive introduction to the central questions of the
philosophy of religion. Provides a history of the philosophy of
religion, from antiquity up to the twentieth century Each section
is preceded by extensive commentary written by the editors,
followed by readings that are arranged chronologically Designed to
be accessible to both undergraduate and graduate students
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Ethics and the Problem of Evil (Hardcover)
James P. Sterba; Contributions by Marilyn McCord Adams, Laura Garcia, John Hare, Stephen Maitzen, …
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The problem of evil has been an extremely active area of study in
the philosophy of religion for many years. Until now, most sources
have focused on logical, metaphysical, and epistemological issues,
leaving moral questions as open territory. With the resources of
ethical theory firmly in hand, this volume provides lively insight
into this ageless philosophical issue.
The problem of evil has been an extremely active area of study in
the philosophy of religion for many years. Until now, most sources
have focused on logical, metaphysical, and epistemological issues,
leaving moral questions as open territory. With the resources of
ethical theory firmly in hand, this volume provides lively insight
into this ageless philosophical issue.
In Omnisubjectivity: A Defense of a Divine attribute, Linda
Zagzebski reflects on how the modern discovery of subjectivity
should influence the way we think about God's attributes. Her
examination of recent conceptions of omnipresence and omniscience
reveals that if God truly has all possible cognitive perfections,
then a new attribute should rightly be applied to God which the
'traditional attributes' do not address: omnisubjectivity.
Zagzebski describes omnisubjectivity as the complete and accurate
grasp of every conscious state of every conscious being from that
being's first person perspective. Thus, God is not only omniscient,
knowing that Mary sees red. But God is omnisubjective, knowing,
from the first person perspective, the quality, qualia, and
phenomenal consciousness of what it is like for Mary to see red. In
this intriguing lecture, Zagzebski examines exactly why God must be
omnisubjective and addresses the possible moral and ethical
concerns of what it means for God to be fully present in His
creatures' subjectivity.
The idea of a virtue has traditionally been important in ethics, but only recently has gained attention as an idea that can explain how we ought to form beliefs as well as how we ought to act. Moral philosophers and epistemologists have different approaches to the idea of intellectual virtue; here, Michael DePaul and Linda Zagzebski bring work from both fields together for the first time to address all of the important issues. It will be required reading for anyone working in either field.
Virtue Epistemology is a new movement receiving much recent attention from top epistemologists and ethicists; this volume reflects the best work in that vein. Included are unpublished articles by such eminent philosophers as Robert Audi, Simon Blackburn, Alvin Goldman, Christopher Hookway, Keith Lehrer, and Ernest Sosa.
Virtue ethics has attracted a lot of attention over the past few
decades, and more recently there has been considerable interest in
virtue epistemology as an alternative to traditional approaches in
that field. Ironically, although virtue epistemology got its
inspiration from virtue ethics, this is the first book that brings
virtue epistemologists and virtue ethicists together to contribute
their particular expertise, and the first that is devoted to the
topic of intellectual virtue.
All new and right up to date, the papers collected here by
Zagzebski and DePaul demonstrate the benefit of each branch of
philosophy to the other. Intellectual Virtue will be required
reading for anyone working in either field.
In this book Linda Zagzebski presents an original moral theory
based on direct reference to exemplars of goodness, modeled on the
Putnam-Kripke theory which revolutionized semantics in the
seventies. In Exemplarist Moral Theory, exemplars are identified
through the emotion of admiration, which Zagzebski argues is both a
motivating emotion and an emotion whose cognitive content permits
the mapping of the moral domain around the features of exemplars.
Using examples of heroes, saints, and sages, Zagzebski shows how
narratives of exemplars and empirical work on the most admirable
persons can be incorporated into the theory for both the
theoretical purpose of generating a comprehensive theory, and the
practical purpose of moral education and self-improvement. All
basic moral terms, including "good person," "virtue," "good life,"
"right act," and "wrong act" are defined by the motives, ends,
acts, or judgments of exemplars, or persons like that. The theory
also generates an account of moral learning through emulation of
exemplars, and Zagzebski defends a principle of the division of
moral linguistic labor, which gives certain groups of people in a
linguistic community special functions in identifying the extension
or moral terms, spreading the stereotype associated with the term
through the community, or providing the reasoning supporting
judgments using those terms. The theory is therefore semantically
externalist in that the meaning of moral terms is determined by
features of the world outside the mind of the user, including
features of exemplars and features of the social linguistic network
linking users of the terms to exemplars. The book ends with
suggestions about versions of the theory that are forms of moral
realism, including a version that supports the existence of
necessary a posteriori truths in ethics.
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