Debate on God and Morality - What Is the Best Account of Objective Moral Values and Duties?

Philosophers William Lane Craig (a theist) and Erik J. Wielenberg (an athiest) debate whether theism or secularism provides the best account of objective moral values and duties. Five more leading philosophers in the field then respond.

List of contents

1. Introduction  2. Opening Speech  3. Opening Speech  4. First Rebuttal  5. First Rebuttal  6. Second Rebuttal  7. Second Rebuttal  8. Closing Statement  9. Closing Statement  10. Questions and Answers  11. Wielenberg and Emergence: Borrowed Capital on the Cheap  12. Does Morality Have a Theological Foundation?  13. Psychopathy and Supererogation  14. Groundless Morals  15. Darwin, Duties, and the Demiurge  16. Final Remarks  17. Final Remarks

About the author

DebatersErik J. Wielenberg is Professor of Philosophy at DePauw University and is the author of Value and Virtue in a Godless Universe (2005), God and the Reach of Reason: C.S. Lewis, David Hume, and Bertrand Russell (2007); and Robust Ethics: The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Godless Normative Realism (2014).
William Lane Craig is Professor of Philosophy at the Talbot School of Theology and Houston Baptist University. He has authored or edited more than forty books, including, Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom (1990), Theism, Atheism, and Big Bang Cosmology (with Quentin Smith, 1995), The Kalam Cosmological Argument (2000), God, Time, and Eternity (2001), and God Over All (2016).
EditorAdam Lloyd Johnson is a Ph.D. student at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Contributors
P. Moreland, David Baggett, Mark Linville, Wes Morriston, and Michael Huemer

Summary

Philosophers William Lane Craig (a theist) and Erik J. Wielenberg (an athiest) debate whether theism or secularism provides the best account of objective moral values and duties. Five more leading philosophers in the field then respond.

Product details

• Authors: William Lane Craig, William Lane Wielenberg Craig, Craig William Lane, Erik J Wielenberg, Erik J. Wielenberg
• Assisted by: Adam Lloyd Johnson (Editor), David Baggett (Translation), Michael Huemer (Translation), Mark Linville (Translation), J. P. Moreland (Translation), Wesley Morriston (Translation)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9780367135645
• ISBN: 978-0-367-13564-5
• No. of pages: 234
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / General, RELIGION / Theism, RELIGION / Atheism, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy of religion