Morality, Autonomy, and God by Ward, Keith -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover About the Author Title Copyright Dedication Contents Introduction Part I: From Naturalism to Theism

1. Being a Moral Agent

Some senses of moral autonomy The Ionian enchantment The Platonic alternative Just discernment and evaluative commitment

2. Reason and Sentiment: a Phantom Battle?

Reason and desire The rationalist case Hume on virtue Doing the reasonable thing Being reasonable about feelings An uneasy truce

3. Hypothetical and Categorical Morality

Virtue and human flourishing Distinctive human goods Love of the Good

4. Naturalism and its Discontents

Enriched naturalism Basic goods and human flourishing The pursuit of happiness Ideals of universal fulfilment The idea of the Good Perceiving value

5. Natural Law

Natural law and divine law Natural and personalist purposes The Enlightenment Project Quasi- and real realism

6. The Objectivity of the Good

The naturalistic fallacy Moore and Platonism Knowing the Good The demand of the ideal Contemplating the Good The world viewed sub specie aeternitatis Morality and purpose Art and beauty

7. Towards Theistic Morality

From the Platonic Good to a personal God A morally conditioned God The divine-command theory Divine perfection A concept of God

Part II: An Outline of a Theistic Morality

8. Moral Commitment and Moral Purpose

Kant’s notion of creative rational will The moral purpose: happiness in accordance with virtue The summum bonum A Kantian ‘moral argument’

9. Kant, Evil, and Redemption

Kant and autonomy Radical evil The limits of autonomy

10. The Religion of Humanity

God and human well-being God and human rights Justice and desert The virtues and God

11. The Anti-Moralists

Nietzsche and the will to power Affirming life

12. The Option for the Poor

Marx and liberation

13. Sartre and Authentic Life

‘Existence precedes essence’ Choosing for all humanity Morality and meaning Authenticity and religion

14. Philosophical Idealism and Religion

Well-being and purpose Absolute Idealism Personal Idealism The end of morality Morality and world religions The beatific vision

15. Some Christian Doctrines

Sin and atonement A theistic morality

Conclusion Bibliography Index of Names Index of Subjects