God and the Grounding of Morality
by Nielsen, KaiFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1992-08-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Ottawa Pr
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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.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| God and the Good: Does Morality Need Religion? | p. 13 |
| Hobbesist and Humean Alternatives to a Religious Morality | p. 23 |
| An Examination of the Thomistic Theory of Natural Moral Law | p. 41 |
| The Myth of Natural Law | p. 69 |
| On Taking Human Nature as the Basis of Morality: An Exercise in Linguistic Analysis | p. 85 |
| Scepticism and Human Rights | p. 101 |
| On Human Rights | p. 119 |
| Grounding Rights and a Method of Reflective Equilibrium | p. 125 |
| On Sticking with Secular Morality | p. 155 |
| Politics and Theology: Do We Need a Political Theology? | p. 177 |
| God and the Basis of Morality | p. 209 |
| Index | p. 227 |
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