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Religion and Morality

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  • © 1996

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Editors:
  1. D. Z. Phillips

    1. Philosophy of Religion Claremont Graduate School, University of Wales, Swansea, UK

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Part of the book series: Claremont Studies in the Philosophy of Religion (CSPR)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Religion as Infantile

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Is Religion an Infantile Morality?

      • Raimond Gaita
      Pages 3-38

    3. Reply: Morality, Humanity and Historicality: Remorse and Religion Revisited

      • Richard Schacht
      Pages 39-55

  3. Morality and Divine Commands

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57
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    2. The Concept of a Divine Command

      • Robert Merrihew Adams
      Pages 59-80

    3. Reply: Moral Duty and God: A View from the Left

      • Clark A. Kucheman
      Pages 81-103

  4. The Problem of Evil

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
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    2. Evil and the God-Who-Does-Nothing-In-Particular

      • Marilyn McCORD Adams
      Pages 107-131

    3. Reply: Redeeming Sorrows

      • Rowan Williams
      Pages 132-148

  5. Religion and Moral Relativism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149
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    2. Relativism about Torture: Religious and Secular Responses

      • Philip L. Quinn
      Pages 151-170

    3. Reply: Ethical Universality and Ethical Relativism

      • Joseph Runzo
      Pages 171-187

  6. Buddhism and Ethics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189
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    2. Ethics Post-Zen

      • John V. Canfield
      Pages 191-211

    3. Reply: Before ‘Post-Zen’: A Discussion of Buddhist Ethics

      • Frank J. Hoffman
      Pages 212-231

  7. Atheism, Morality and Religion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 233-233
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    2. Atheism and Morality

      • R. W. Beardsmore
      Pages 235-249

    3. Reply: Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Anscombe on Moral Unintelligibility

      • James Conant
      Pages 250-298

  8. Voices in Dicussion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 299-299
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Reflection on religion inevitably involves consideration of its relation to morality. When great evil is done to human beings, we may feel that something absolute has been violated. Can that sense, which is related to gratitude for existence, be expressed without religious concepts? Can we express central religious concerns, such as losing the self, while abandoning any religious metaphysic? Is moral obligation itself dependent on divine commands if it is to be objective, or is morality not only independent of religion, but its accuser if God is said to allow horrendous evils? In any case, what happens to the absolute claims of religion in what is, undeniably, a morally pluralistic world? These are the central questions discussed by philosophers of religion and moral philosophers in this collection. They do so in ways which bring new aspects to bear on these traditional issues.

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  • Philosophy of Religion Claremont Graduate School, University of Wales, Swansea, UK

    D. Z. Phillips

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