Enabling Ivan Karamazov: responding to Mark Murphy's God's Own Ethics: Norms of Divine Agency and the Argument from Evil
God's Own Ethics introduces a number of philosophical subfields into conversation with philosophy of religion and metaethics in an attempt to discern the ethics of God. While its conception of the divine being is itself controversial, I here take issue with the claim that the divine being descr...
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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: 557-563 |
| Review of: | God's own ethics (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017) (Irwin, Kristen)
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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 |
| Further subjects: | B
Book review
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| Summary: | God's Own Ethics introduces a number of philosophical subfields into conversation with philosophy of religion and metaethics in an attempt to discern the ethics of God. While its conception of the divine being is itself controversial, I here take issue with the claim that the divine being described in God's Own Ethics would be one worthy of worship and allegiance. Specifically, I argue that a God lacking in moral perfection of the sort familiar to humans is either unrecognizable as God, or is open to the Ivan Karamazov' objection that such a God deserves neither worship nor allegiance. |
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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/S0034412517000361 |