From morality to metaphysics: the theistic implications of our ethical commitments

by Ritchie, Angus

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Full title :From morality to metaphysics : the theistic implications of our ethical commitments / Angus Ritchie.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2012.
Edition:1st ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012.

The Physical Object

Description:vii, 198 p. ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780199652518, 0199652511
oclc:ocn847553826
LC Classification:BT

Part I: The 'explanatory gap'. 1. Why take morality to be objective? -- 2. The gap opens: evolution and our capacity for moral knowledge -- Part II: Secular responses. 3. Alternatives to realism: Simon Blackburn and Allan Gibbard -- 4. Procedures and reasons: Tim Scanlon and Christine Korsgaard -- 5. Natural goodness: Philippa Foot's moral objectivism -- 6. Natural goodness and 'second nature': John McDowell and David Wiggin -- Part III: Theism. 7. From goodness to God: closing the explanatory gap -- 8. Purpose without theism? Axiarchism and Neoplatonism