Purpose in the universe : the moral and metaphysical case for ananthropocentric purposivism / Tim Mulgan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mulgan, Tim, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cosmology.

Metaphysics--Moral and ethical aspects.

Metaphysics.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (435 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Moral and metaphysical case for ananthropocentric purposivism

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Two familiar worldviews dominate Western philosophy: materialist atheism and the benevolent God of the Abrahamic faiths. Tim Mulgan defends a third way. Ananthropocentric purposivism claims that there is a cosmic purpose, but human beings are irrelevant to it. He argues that non-human-centred cosmic purpose can ground a distinctive human morality.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Meta-ethics

pt. I The Case against Atheism

3. Cosmological Arguments

4. Teleological Arguments

5. Mysticism

6. Ontological Arguments

pt. II The Case against Benevolent Theism

7. Arguments from Scale

8. Arguments from Evil

9. Religious Diversity

10. Immortality

pt. III Ananthropocentric Purposivist Morality

11.A Dialogue

12. Human Well-being

13. Ananthropocentric Purposivist Moral Theory.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 8, 2015).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-106657-5

0-19-181399-0

0-19-106656-7

OCLC:

920823944