Value and Virtue in a Godless Universe

ISBN: 9780521607841 出版年：2005 页码：205 Wielenberg Cambridge University Press

Acknowledgements Introduction Part I. God and the Meaning of Life: 1. The meanings of life 2. Four arguments that life lacks internal meaning without God 3. Richard Taylor's way out: creating your own meaning 4. Peter Singer's way out: meaning through eliminating pain 5. Aristotle's way out: intrinsically good activity Part II. God and Morality: 6. God as the omnipotent creator of ethics 7. Criticism of the strong position 8. Criticism of the weak position 9. An alternative account 10. God as divine commander Part III. The Divine Guarantee of Perfect Justice: 11. Why be moral? 12. First answer: because morality and self-interest coincide 13. Second answer: because you ought to 14. The divine guarantee of perfect justice and Kant's moral argument 15. Divine justice, self-sacrifice, and moral absurdity 16. Absolute evil and moral faith 17. Where we are now Part IV. Ethical Character in a Godless Universe: 18. A new assumption 19. The fall of man: pride and disobedience 20. Humility, Christian and naturalistic 21. From humility to charity 22. Hope and heroism 23. Moral education and science Part V. Creeds to Live By: 24. To believe or not to believe? 25. A creed we can live by? Notes References.