Intrinsic value and love: three challenges for God's Own Ethics
I advance three challenges for the view Murphy advances in God's Own Ethics. The first two challenges target Murphy's claim that God does not have requiring reasons to prevent the suffering of rational creatures. I develop two arguments against that position, one based on the intrinsic val...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2017]
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Religious studies
Year: 2017, Volume: 53, Issue: 4, Pages: 551-557 |
| Review of: | God's own ethics (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017) (Wielenberg, Erik J.)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
God
/ Moral act
/ Suffering
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism NBC Doctrine of God NCA Ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Book review
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Volltext (Verlag) Volltext (doi) |
| Summary: | I advance three challenges for the view Murphy advances in God's Own Ethics. The first two challenges target Murphy's claim that God does not have requiring reasons to prevent the suffering of rational creatures. I develop two arguments against that position, one based on the intrinsic value of human beings, the other based on the intrinsic badness of the suffering of rational creatures. My third challenge targets Murphy's account of God's contingent love for humanity. I seek to raise doubts about whether Murphy's picture is one in which it is true to say that God loves all human beings. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-901X |
| Reference: | Kritik in "Replies to Wielenberg, Irwin, and Draper (2017)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412517000385 |