From Morality to Metaphysics - The Theistic Implications of Our Ethical Commitments

Informationen zum Autor Angus Ritchie studied Philosophy at Magdalen College, Oxford, both as an undergraduate and a doctoral student. In between, he served as an Anglican priest in east London, where he now directs the Contextual Theology Centre. He is involved in research for the University of Notre Dame on the role of religious communities, and religious reasoning in public life. He is Assistant Chaplain at Keble College, Oxford and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of East London. Klappentext Angus Ritchie offers an argument for the existence of God, which is based on our most fundamental moral beliefs. He argues for the 'deliberative indispensability' of moral realism, and asserts that only theism can adequately explain our capacity for knowledge of objective moral truths. a powerful and organized study John Cottingham, The TLS Zusammenfassung Angus Ritchie offers an argument for the existence of God, which is based on our most fundamental moral beliefs. He argues for the 'deliberative indispensability' of moral realism, and asserts that only theism can adequately explain our capacity for knowledge of objective moral truths.

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• Authors: Angus Ritchie, Angus (Director of the Contextual Theology Centre in East London and a Research Associate in Philosophy at Oxford University) Ritchie, Ritchie Angus
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 20.01.2013, delayed
• EAN: 9780199652518
• ISBN: 978-0-19-965251-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, RELIGION / Ethics, RELIGION / Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Nature & existence of God, Ethics and moral philosophy, Religious ethics, Philosophy of religion, Nature and existence of God and of the Divine