[PDF] Morality And Religion eBook

Author : Professor William J Wainwright
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 37,89 MB
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1409476979

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Religion and Morality addresses central issues arising from religion's relation to morality. Part I offers a sympathetic but critical appraisal of the claim that features of morality provide evidence for the truth of religious belief. Part II examines divine command theories, objections to them, and positive arguments in their support. Part III explores tensions between human morality, as ordinarily understood, and religious requirements by discussing such issues as the conflict between Buddhist and Christian pacifism and requirements of justice, whether 'virtue' without a love of God is really a vice, whether the God of the Abrahamic religions could require us to do something that seems clearly immoral, and the ambiguous relations between religious mysticism and moral behavior. Covering a broad range of topics, this book draws on both historical and contemporary literature, and explores afresh central issues of morality and religion offering new insights for students, academics and the general reader interested in philosophy and religion.

Author : Donald M. Broom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 36,40 MB
Release : 2003-12-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521529242

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Author : Daromir Rudnyckyj
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 10,28 MB
Release : 2017-03-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107186056

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This book focuses on how neoliberal market practices engender new forms of religiosity, and how religiosity shapes economic actions.

Author : Michael Bergmann
Publisher : Berkeley Tanner Lectures
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,10 MB
Release : 2014-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199669775

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Fourteen original essays by philosophers, theologians, and social scientists explore the challenges to moral and religious belief posed by disagreement and evolution. The collection represents both sceptical and non-skeptical positions about morality and religion, cultivates new insights, and moves the discussion forward in illuminating ways.

Author : Phil Zuckerman
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,14 MB
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1640092749

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“A thoughtful perspective on humans' capacity for moral behavior.” —Kirkus Reviews “A comprehensive introduction to religious skepticism.” —Publishers Weekly In What It Means to Be Moral: Why Religion Is Not Necessary for Living an Ethical Life, Phil Zuckerman argues that morality does not come from God. Rather, it comes from us: our brains, our evolutionary past, our ongoing cultural development, our social experiences, and our ability to reason, reflect, and be sensitive to the suffering of others. By deconstructing religious arguments for God–based morality and guiding readers through the premises and promises of secular morality, Zuckerman argues that the major challenges facing the world today—from global warming and growing inequality to religious support for unethical political policies to gun violence and terrorism—are best approached from a nonreligious ethical framework. In short, we need to look to our fellow humans and within ourselves for moral progress and ethical action. “In this brilliant, provocative, and timely book, Phil Zuckerman breaks down the myth that our morality comes from religion—compellingly making the case that when it comes to the biggest challenges we face today, a secular approach is the only truly moral one.” —Ali A. Rizvi, author of The Atheist Muslim

Author : Basil Mitchell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 32,55 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198245377

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This book analyzes the moral confusion of contemporary society, relating rival conceptions of morality with a wide variety of views about the nature and predicament of man. Mitchell argues that many secular thinkers possess a traditional "Christian" conscience which they find hard to defend in terms of an entirely secular world-view, but which is more in line with a Christian understanding of man.

Author : William James
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 20,34 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674267350

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Essays in Religion and Morality brings together a dozen papers of varying length to these two themes so crucial to the life and thought of William James. Reflections on the two subjects permeate, first, James's presentation of his father's Literary Remains; second, his writings on human immortality and the relation between reason and faith; third, his two memorial pieces, one on Robert Gould Shaw and the other on Emerson; fourth, his consideration of the energies and powers of human life; and last, his writings on the possibilities of peace, especially as found in his famous essay "The Moral Equivalent of War." These speeches and essays were written over a period of twenty-four years. The fact that James did not collect and publish them himself in a single volume does not reflect on their intrinsic worth or on their importance in James's philosophical work, since they include some of the best known and most influential of his writings. All the essays, throughout their varied subject matter, are consistently and characteristically Jamesian in the freshness of their attack on the problems and failings of humankind and in their steady faith in human powers.

Author : R. Keith Loftin
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 11,11 MB
Release : 2012-08-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830863451

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Is morality dependent upon belief in God? Is there more than one way for Christians to understand the nature of morality? Is there any agreement between Christians and atheists or agnostics on this heated issue? In God and Morality: Four Views four distinguished voices in moral philosophy ariticulate and defend their place in the current debate between naturalism and theism. Christian philosophers, Keith Yandell and Mark Linville and two self-identified atheist/agnostics, Evan Fales and Michael Ruse clearly and honestly represent their differing views on the nature of morality. Important differences as well as areas of overlap emerge as each contributor states their case, receives criticism from the others and responds. Of particular value for use as an academic text, these four essays and responses, covering the naturalist moral non-realist, naturalist moral realist, moral essentialist and moral particularist views, will foster critical thinking and contribute to the development of a well-informed position on this very important issue.

Author : Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 50,17 MB
Release : 2009-07-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0195337638

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A common refrain against atheism and secular humanism is that without belief in God, "everything is permitted." Walter Sinnott-Armstrong dismantles this argument and argues instead that God is not only not essential to morality, but that our moral behavior should be seen as utterly independent of religion. This short, accessible book is on a major aspect of the arguments against atheism and will interest those intrigued by the "new atheism" (Harris, Dawkins, etc).