John E. Hare (Yale Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology

God's Command

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Produktbeschreibung

This work is an exploration of divine command theory, which is the theory that what makes something morally obligatory is that God commands it.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Studies in Theological Ethics
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 506g
• ISBN-13: 9780198829843
• ISBN-10: 0198829841
• Artikelnr.: 52820014

Autorenporträt

John E. Hare received his BA from Oxford University, and his Ph.D. from Princeton University. He then taught at Lehigh University, with a couple of years on the staff of the House Foreign Affairs Committee in Washington, DC. He then taught at Calvin College, and went to Yale in 2003, where he teaches in the Divinity School, the Philosophy Department, the Religious Studies Department, and the Classics Department. His publications include The Moral Gap (OUP, 1997) and God and Morality (Wiley Blackwell, 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1: Morality and Religion
2: What is a Divine Command?
3: Eudaimonism
4: Can We Deduce Morality from Human Nature?
5: Barth on Divine Command
6: Divine Command in Some Medieval Islamic Thinkers
7: Divine Command in Some Recent Jewish Thinkers
8: Divine Command and Evolutionary Psychology
9: Summary
Bibliography