God and morality [[electronic resource] ] : a philosophical history / / John E. Hare

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910841740603321
• Autore: Hare J. E. <1949->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, : Blackwell, 2007
• ISBN: 1-280-74274-7; 9786610742745; 0-470-70769-0; 0-470-75475-3; 1-4051-7243-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (318 p.)
• Classificazione: 5,1; CC 7000; CC 8500; CD 1120
• Disciplina: 170.9
• Soggetti: Ethics - History; Religious ethics - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: God and Morality: A Philosophical History; CONTENTS; Introduction; 1 Aristotle; The School of Athens; The Protrepticus; God and Nous in Nicomachean Ethics Book I; The First Sentence of the Nicomachean Ethics; Heading towards the Good; Virtue; Larry Arnhart; 2 Duns Scotus; The Disputà; Duns Scotus, Lectura; The Two Affections of the Will; Justice and God; Scotus and Virtue; Scotus and Particularity; Jean-Paul Sartre; 3 Immanuel Kant; The Time Between; Kant, Lectures on Ethics (Collins); The Groundwork; The Critique of Practical Reason; Religion; Metaphysics of Morals; Christine Korsgaard; 4 R. M. HareThe Time Between; "An Essay on Monism"; The Language of Morals; Freedom and Reason; Moral Thinking; Peter Singer; 5 Combining the Theories; The Goal of the Chapter; Virtue Theory; Command Theory; Consequentialism; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: God and Morality evaluates the ethical theories of four principle ; philosophers, Aristotle, Duns Scotus, Kant, and R.M. Hare.Uses their thinking as the basis for telling the story of the history and development of ethical thought more broadlyFocuses specifically on their writings on virtue, will, duty, and consequenceConcentrates on the theistic beliefs to highlight continuity of philosophical thought