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God and the grounding of morality / Kai Nielsen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nielsen, Kai, 1926-
- Series:
- Collection Philosophica ; v. 41.
- Philosophica ; 41
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion and ethics.
- Natural law.
- Human rights--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Human rights.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (230 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, c1991.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- These essays make a single central claim: that human beings can still make sense of their lives and still have a humane morality, even if their worldview is utterly secular and even if they have lost the last vestige of belief in God. ""Even in a self-consciously Godless world life can be fully meaningful,"" Nielsen contends.
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 God and the Good: Does Morality Need Religion?; CHAPTER 2 Hobbesist and Humean Alternatives to a Religious Morality; CHAPTER 3 An Examination of the Thomistic Theory of Natural Moral Law; CHAPTER 4 The Myth of Natural Law; CHAPTER 5 On Taking Human Nature as the Basis of Morality: An Exercise in Linguistic Analysis; CHAPTER 6 Scepticism and Human Rights; CHAPTER 7 On Human Rights; CHAPTER 8 Grounding Rights and a Method of Reflective Equilibrium; CHAPTER 9 On Sticking with Secular Morality; CHAPTER 10 Politics and Theology: Do We Need a Political Theology?
- CHAPTER 11 God and the Basis of MoralityIndex
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780776616032
- 077661603X
- OCLC:
- 742332995
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